Section at absolute address

[Ramana]

> using ld, how can I locate a section at an absolute address?
> I want to do another linking step (using relocatable binary) and want a
> given section to stay at that very address it had after the first link
> took place.
> Whenever I define a symbol in a linker script like "foo=1;" nm tells me
> that this symbol is absolute and thus is not changed in further linking
> steps. Basically that is what I want for a section (or all symbols in
> that section).

Assuming that you want the section/symbols to reside at the defined
address (my_address) after the first linking step you can do the
following in the linker script

for symbol:
                foo = ABSOLUTE(my_address);

for section:
              SECTIONS{
                             my_sec my_address:   AT(my_address) { }
               }

If you want to have the section/symbols to reside at the defined
address in final image too then follow the above steps in each linker
script you use in every linking step.

Ram
Freescale Semiconductor, India