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								This file documents the GNU linker LD
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000,
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								<a name="Output-Section-LMA"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Forced-Output-Alignment.html#Forced-Output-Alignment">Forced Output Alignment</a>,
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								Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Output-Section-Type.html#Output-Section-Type">Output Section Type</a>,
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								<h5 class="subsubsection">3.6.8.2 Output Section LMA</h5>
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								<p><a name="index-AT_003e_0040var_007blma_005fregion_007d-408"></a><a name="index-AT_0028_0040var_007blma_007d_0029-409"></a><a name="index-load-address-410"></a><a name="index-section-load-address-411"></a>Every section has a virtual address (VMA) and a load address (LMA); see
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								<a href="Basic-Script-Concepts.html#Basic-Script-Concepts">Basic Script Concepts</a>.  The address expression which may appear in
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								an output section description sets the VMA (see <a href="Output-Section-Address.html#Output-Section-Address">Output Section Address</a>).
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								   <p>The expression <var>lma</var> that follows the <code>AT</code> keyword specifies
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								the load address of the section.
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								   <p>Alternatively, with <span class="samp">AT></span><var>lma_region</var> expression, you may
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								specify a memory region for the section's load address. See <a href="MEMORY.html#MEMORY">MEMORY</a>. 
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								Note that if the section has not had a VMA assigned to it then the
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								linker will use the <var>lma_region</var> as the VMA region as well.
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								   <p>If neither <code>AT</code> nor <code>AT></code> is specified for an allocatable
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								section, the linker will set the LMA such that the difference between
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								VMA and LMA for the section is the same as the preceding output
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								section in the same region.  If there is no preceding output section
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								or the section is not allocatable, the linker will set the LMA equal
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								to the VMA. 
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								See <a href="Output-Section-Region.html#Output-Section-Region">Output Section Region</a>.
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								   <p><a name="index-ROM-initialized-data-412"></a><a name="index-initialized-data-in-ROM-413"></a>This feature is designed to make it easy to build a ROM image.  For
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								example, the following linker script creates three output sections: one
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								called <span class="samp">.text</span>, which starts at <code>0x1000</code>, one called
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								<span class="samp">.mdata</span>, which is loaded at the end of the <span class="samp">.text</span> section
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								even though its VMA is <code>0x2000</code>, and one called <span class="samp">.bss</span> to hold
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								uninitialized data at address <code>0x3000</code>.  The symbol <code>_data</code> is
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								defined with the value <code>0x2000</code>, which shows that the location
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								counter holds the VMA value, not the LMA value.
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								<pre class="smallexample">     SECTIONS
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								       {
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								       .text 0x1000 : { *(.text) _etext = . ; }
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								       .mdata 0x2000 :
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								         AT ( ADDR (.text) + SIZEOF (.text) )
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								         { _data = . ; *(.data); _edata = . ;  }
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								       .bss 0x3000 :
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								         { _bstart = . ;  *(.bss) *(COMMON) ; _bend = . ;}
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								     }
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								</pre>
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								   <p>The run-time initialization code for use with a program generated with
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								this linker script would include something like the following, to copy
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								the initialized data from the ROM image to its runtime address.  Notice
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								how this code takes advantage of the symbols defined by the linker
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								script.
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								<pre class="smallexample">     extern char _etext, _data, _edata, _bstart, _bend;
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								     char *src = &_etext;
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								     char *dst = &_data;
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								     /* ROM has data at end of text; copy it. */
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								     while (dst < &_edata) {
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								       *dst++ = *src++;
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								     }
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								     for (dst = &_bstart; dst< &_bend; dst++)
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								       *dst = 0;
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