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Re: armelf ldscript :

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>
To: vanokuten at hitron dot co dot kr
Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 18 Dec 2001 13:57:12 +0000
Subject: Re: armelf ldscript :
References: <200112130043.fBD0h3M13460@hitron.co.kr><20011213112430.I25540@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

Hi ,

> On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:47:37AM +0900, I.S.Kuten wrote:
> > 
> > Can anyone tell me why we are using 0x8000 as a start address of our code ? 
> > Why this value ?
> 
> Non-zero so NULL pointer dereferences can be caught, and greater or equal
> to the start of the next page in memory.  Page size can vary on some
> architectures, so usually chosen at the largest possible page size.

Another reason is that the ARM places its interrupt vectors at 0x0 and
these should not be overwritten by application code.

Cheers
        Nick

References:
- armelf ldscript :
  - From: I.S.Kuten
- Re: armelf ldscript :
  - From: Alan Modra

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