ld generates invalid addresses

[Niklas Gürtler]

On 05/14/2012 05:49 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Niklas Gürtler wrote:
>> from the program memory. The problem is now, that the _sidata label
>> is set incorrectly - in my case, the initialization data in the
>> flash begins at addess 0x080021b0 (placed there by ld), so ld should
>> set _sidata to exactly that address, but it sets it to 0x080021ac.
> Why must ld do that?  You have
>
>    _sidata = .;
>
>    .data :
>    {
>      . = ALIGN(4);
>    ...
>
> .data may be at a different address due to alignment of .data, or ld
> may have inserted an orphan section between the assignment and .data.
>
> Probably your best option is to use
>    _sidata = ADDR (.data);
> Put this somewhere after the .data section.
>
Oh, you are right. Apparantly, it has to be LOADADDR(.data); because I 
need the address in the flash memory, not the RAM. Thank you very much 
for your help!