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Re: MEMORY attributes in linker script
- From: James Murray <james at nscc dot info>
- To: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:20:19 +0100
- Subject: Re: MEMORY attributes in linker script
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On Fri, 2015-04-17 at 11:04 -0700, Cary Coutant wrote:
> > However, setting that attribute does not actually set the generated
> > section attributes in the linker output. I assumed that it would.
> >
> > Somewhere else (can't find the link now) it said that the section
> > attributes are checked but ignored?
>
> The MEMORY block in the linker script doesn't define a section or
> segment; it describes a region of memory that's available for
> placement of sections. If you specify attributes, the linker uses them
> to decide whether a section is eligible to be placed in that memory
> region, but it's the attributes of the sections themselves that
> determine the attributes of the output section.
Thanks for that clarification.
Are those words already in the documentation? If not, is there any
chance of adding them and possibly a few of the words I suggested
before?
regards
James Murray