ld's padding up with zeroes

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Steffen,

> I have linked two short object files a.o and b.o into one binary c.bin. 
> The first part of c.bin consists of machine code. The second part of 
> c.bin consists of zeroes.
> 
> Apparantely, ld padds up the file c.bin with zeroes until it reaches 
> 1024kbytes. Is there a switch to avoid this?

This sounds like a pagesize problem.  Try linking with the -N switch.

Cheers
   Nick