How to control location of startup code?

[Richard Earnshaw]

> 
> >> Is there any way to control how the default startup code ends up in
>    the output file/the virutal address it gets and/or what output
>    section it's included in?
> 
> I do it by putting it in a seperate segment. More specifically, I have
> my own "crt0.s" it contains the reset vector and other IRQ like things
> below is the relavent snippit in ARM assembly
> 
> 
> >> 	.section	.vectors
[...]
> The *PROBLEM* with this is by default the '.vectors' segment is not
> tagged as loadable perhaps there is a way to do this in GAS, it was
> not obvious to me.
> 

You need to set the section flags when you create the section, something 
like:

	.section .vectors, code, "ax"

which tells the assembler that the section contains code, has to be 
_A_llocated at load time and is e_X_ecutable.

R.



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