Preventing cross-gdb/insight download of specific sections?

[Toralf Lund]

Toralf Lund wrote:

> mkelwood@qsicorp.com wrote:
>
>> If you want to use /DISCARD/, you need an output section named 
>> /DISCARD/,
>> then put the input sections you want to exclude in there:
>> /DISCARD/ :
>> {
>>        *(.section1-to-exclude)
>>        *(.section2-to-exclude)
>> }
>>
>> Looks like you are trying to stuff the output section .fpga into a 
>> memory
>> region named /DISCARD/. That won't do what you want.
>> With best regards,
>>  
>>
> Ah. Now I see. I guess I got the terminology mixed up when I read the 
> manual. It would still seem more logical to me to specify this in 
> terms of the memory area, but never mind that.
>
> However, if I just replace .fpga with /DISCARD/ in the below section 
> setup (and drop the > /DISCARD/), I get
>
>    /usr/arm-coff/bin/ld: Illegal use of `/DISCARD/' section
>    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
> Any ideas why?

OK. Seems like it doesn't like address update statements (". = 
ALIGN(...)" etc.) inside the /DISCARD/ section. How annoying. This makes 
life harder because I'm automatically generating this linker script, 
based on a different one which I want to include the section in question.

- Toralf


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