Linker/loader directives

I am seeking some (hopefully) general information about linker or
loader directives that can be used to cause some arrays used in a C
program to be stored at a particular (NVRAM) location. Could you
please recommend some reading material? I suspect it may be compiler
dependent. I will be using a Microtek compiler and probably an ARM 7
or 9 processor.

Thanx,

gtb

goodTweetieBird wrote:
> I am seeking some (hopefully) general information about linker or
> loader directives that can be used to cause some arrays used in a C
> program to be stored at a particular (NVRAM) location. Could you
> please recommend some reading material? I suspect it may be compiler
> dependent. I will be using a Microtek compiler and probably an ARM 7
> or 9 processor.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> gtb

It is compiler and linker (and maybe assembler)
dependent.

In GNU tools, the way to control locating the
linked code/data is to use program sections.

You can put the affected functions or data
items to a separately named section with
the item attributes (see GCC and binutils manuals).
The sections can be separately located to the
desired addreses with linker control file directives.

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Tauno Voipio