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Re: Linker script

From: Michael Svetlik <m dot svetlik at ssi-schaefer-peem dot com>
To: "Daniel Lidsten" <Daniel dot Lidsten at combitechsystems dot com>,"Paul Whitfield" <paulw at microsol dot iinet dot net dot au>,"crossgcc" <crossgcc at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:27:41 +0200
Subject: Re: Linker script
Organization: SSI-Schaefer-PEEM
References: <004B1D7A5257174C9044A1B7BD0E60EDA65DFF@ratatosk.combitechsystems.com>

>
> I think you misunderstod my problem here. It is not a c program that
> shall access this variable, i want the value of etext to be place on a
> fixed adress of the binary image. This is because a let another program
> interpret the binary image and calcualte a checksum on it i.e i need to
> know the value of etext data without running the program.
>
> Regards, Daniel Lidsten

Daniel,

I think, the SIZEOF function at
http://www.gnu.org/manual/ld-2.9.1/html_node/ld_14.html#SEC14
is what you need.
Unnecessary to say, that the symbol carrying the image length must be located 
on a fixed place - OUTSIDE - the text image....

Michael


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  - From: Daniel Lidsten

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