Overlay sections, linking and copying

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 01:01:58PM +0200, Ignacio Subira wrote:
> Until now, I've read enough to be able to design the overlay structure in
> the linker script and store the complete binary in the flash of my device.
> The problem comes now when I want to load the pieces of code, where do I
> have to look for them in flash?, where are them stored in the binary?, in
> what address do they start and end?.

As the ld info doc states, the linker defines __load_start_<secname>
and __load_stop_<secname> symbols for each overlay.  You can reference
these symbols to build a table of load addresses.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM