output section placement at end of memory
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Wed Jul 27 08:48:00 GMT 2005
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:20:42AM +0200, Josef Angermeier wrote:
> Can this be done with an ld linker script ? - i've read the manual and
> think it can't be done, because the size of "*.special" isn't known
> until it's corresponding output section is created, so you can't
> calculate the number of padding bytes.
Correct.
> Im probably not the only one facing this problem, so how did others
> solve that ?
Link first without any padding, extract the section sizes, relink with
calculated padding. You should be able to automate this.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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