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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="Simple-Example"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Simple-Commands.html#Simple-Commands">Simple Commands</a>,
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								<h3 class="section">3.3 Simple Linker Script Example</h3>
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								<p><a name="index-linker-script-example-312"></a><a name="index-example-of-linker-script-313"></a>Many linker scripts are fairly simple.
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								   <p>The simplest possible linker script has just one command:
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								<span class="samp">SECTIONS</span>.  You use the <span class="samp">SECTIONS</span> command to describe the
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								memory layout of the output file.
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								   <p>The <span class="samp">SECTIONS</span> command is a powerful command.  Here we will
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								describe a simple use of it.  Let's assume your program consists only of
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								code, initialized data, and uninitialized data.  These will be in the
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								<span class="samp">.text</span>, <span class="samp">.data</span>, and <span class="samp">.bss</span> sections, respectively. 
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								Let's assume further that these are the only sections which appear in
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								your input files.
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								   <p>For this example, let's say that the code should be loaded at address
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								0x10000, and that the data should start at address 0x8000000.  Here is a
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								linker script which will do that:
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								<pre class="smallexample">     SECTIONS
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								     {
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								       . = 0x10000;
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								       .text : { *(.text) }
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								       . = 0x8000000;
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								       .data : { *(.data) }
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								       .bss : { *(.bss) }
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								     }
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								   <p>You write the <span class="samp">SECTIONS</span> command as the keyword <span class="samp">SECTIONS</span>,
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								followed by a series of symbol assignments and output section
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								descriptions enclosed in curly braces.
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								   <p>The first line inside the <span class="samp">SECTIONS</span> command of the above example
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								sets the value of the special symbol <span class="samp">.</span>, which is the location
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								counter.  If you do not specify the address of an output section in some
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								other way (other ways are described later), the address is set from the
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								current value of the location counter.  The location counter is then
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								incremented by the size of the output section.  At the start of the
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								<span class="samp">SECTIONS</span> command, the location counter has the value <span class="samp">0</span>.
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								   <p>The second line defines an output section, <span class="samp">.text</span>.  The colon is
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								required syntax which may be ignored for now.  Within the curly braces
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								after the output section name, you list the names of the input sections
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								which should be placed into this output section.  The <span class="samp">*</span> is a
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								wildcard which matches any file name.  The expression <span class="samp">*(.text)</span>
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								means all <span class="samp">.text</span> input sections in all input files.
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								   <p>Since the location counter is <span class="samp">0x10000</span> when the output section
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								<span class="samp">.text</span> is defined, the linker will set the address of the
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								<span class="samp">.text</span> section in the output file to be <span class="samp">0x10000</span>.
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								   <p>The remaining lines define the <span class="samp">.data</span> and <span class="samp">.bss</span> sections in
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								the output file.  The linker will place the <span class="samp">.data</span> output section
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								at address <span class="samp">0x8000000</span>.  After the linker places the <span class="samp">.data</span>
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								output section, the value of the location counter will be
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								<span class="samp">0x8000000</span> plus the size of the <span class="samp">.data</span> output section.  The
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								effect is that the linker will place the <span class="samp">.bss</span> output section
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								immediately after the <span class="samp">.data</span> output section in memory.
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								   <p>The linker will ensure that each output section has the required
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								alignment, by increasing the location counter if necessary.  In this
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								example, the specified addresses for the <span class="samp">.text</span> and <span class="samp">.data</span>
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								sections will probably satisfy any alignment constraints, but the linker
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								may have to create a small gap between the <span class="samp">.data</span> and <span class="samp">.bss</span>
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								sections.
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								   <p>That's it!  That's a simple and complete linker script.
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