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								This file documents the GNU linker LD
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								(GNU Binutils)
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								version 2.19.
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2000,
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								2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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								under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
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								or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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								<a name="MMIX"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="MSP430.html#MSP430">MSP430</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">4.7 <code>ld</code> and MMIX</h3>
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								<p>For MMIX, there is a choice of generating <code>ELF</code> object files or
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								<code>mmo</code> object files when linking.  The simulator <code>mmix</code>
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								understands the <code>mmo</code> format.  The binutils <code>objcopy</code> utility
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								can translate between the two formats.
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								   <p>There is one special section, the <span class="samp">.MMIX.reg_contents</span> section. 
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								Contents in this section is assumed to correspond to that of global
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								registers, and symbols referring to it are translated to special symbols,
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								equal to registers.  In a final link, the start address of the
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								<span class="samp">.MMIX.reg_contents</span> section corresponds to the first allocated
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								global register multiplied by 8.  Register <code>$255</code> is not included in
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								this section; it is always set to the program entry, which is at the
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								symbol <code>Main</code> for <code>mmo</code> files.
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								   <p>Global symbols with the prefix <code>__.MMIX.start.</code>, for example
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								<code>__.MMIX.start..text</code> and <code>__.MMIX.start..data</code> are special. 
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								The default linker script uses these to set the default start address
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								of a section.
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								   <p>Initial and trailing multiples of zero-valued 32-bit words in a section,
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								are left out from an mmo file.
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