Re: Cross debugger and load address (want download to VMA, not LMA)

[Bill Gatliff <bgat at billgatliff dot com>]

Grant:



Grant Edwards wrote:

> > toralf>> If not, is there any way to produce a version of the binary
> > 	 with LMA = VMA for .text and .data, besides relinking with a
> > 	 separate linker script?
> >    
>
> You can use objcopy to change both the LMA and VMA of sections.

Does that work for code that isn't position-independent, though?  (I 
haven't tried this in a while)

For example, one can envision an extreme case where they use objcopy on 
an S-Record file to move the LMA, and the first branch instruction in 
the program goes back to the old address...


b.g.

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