[PATCH v1 0/6] TIMESTAMP output section command

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
> Den 2025-10-08 kl. 10:17, skrev Alan Modra:
> > You can of course already insert a quad-word entry with the current
> > time, so this is really just syntactic sugar.  One way is
> > INCLUDE timestamp.ld
> > in your script somewhere, then just before running the linker, run
> > echo ".QUAD `date '+%s'`" > timestamp.ld

I'll one-up Alan's suggestion: for your definition of a 
timestamp, use the ld command-line option
 "--defsym my_timestamp=`date '+%s'`"
and use
 "QUAD(my_timestamp)" in the 
linker script.  Works with today's version.
And yesterday's, and ten years ago: I checked.

That it works with today's (and yester-year's) linker version, 
not requiring any functionality, is important to embedded 
developers.

brgds, H-P
/embedded developer
(mentioned only because I got the impression that was important)