Re: Linker script: Usage of INCLUDE and EXCLUDE_FILE + SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT/SORT_BY_NAME?

[Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>]

Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@googlemail.com> writes:

> 1. I have some statements like this:
>
> .text    :
> {
>     file1.o
>     file2.o
>     (.text)
> }

This output section spec contains two input section descriptions:
`file1.o' and `file2.o(.text)'.

> This does work. As I have to use the list of files in different
> sections (.data, .rodata etc) I'd like to put the file list into a
> separate file and include this file using INCLUDE. E.g.
>
> .text:
> {
>     INCLUDE file.lst
>     (.text)
> }

This is not a valid output section spec because `(.text)' cannot be
parsed as "a file name optionally followed by a list of section names in
parentheses".

Andreas.

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