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Re: output section placement at end of memory
Hello
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 06:18:11PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:20:42AM +0200, Josef Angermeier wrote:
> > Can this be done with an ld linker script ? - i've read the manual and
> > think it can't be done, because the size of "*.special" isn't known
> > until it's corresponding output section is created, so you can't
> > calculate the number of padding bytes.
> Correct.
Good! At least now im sure i didn't oversee s.th. in the ld manual. Thanks Alan.
> > Im probably not the only one facing this problem, so how did others
> > solve that ?
> Link first without any padding, extract the section sizes, relink with
> calculated padding. You should be able to automate this.
Probably yes. So i'd appreciate to know how others solved that
particularly.
ciao
josef