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<a name="Expression-Section"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Builtin-Functions.html#Builtin-Functions">Builtin Functions</a>,
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<h4 class="subsection">3.10.7 The Section of an Expression</h4>
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<p><a name="index-expression-sections-480"></a><a name="index-absolute-expressions-481"></a><a name="index-relative-expressions-482"></a><a name="index-absolute-and-relocatable-symbols-483"></a><a name="index-relocatable-and-absolute-symbols-484"></a><a name="index-symbols_002c-relocatable-and-absolute-485"></a>When the linker evaluates an expression, the result is either absolute
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whether it is absolute or relative. An expression which appears within
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an output section definition is relative to the base of the output
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section. An expression which appears elsewhere will be absolute.
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<p>A symbol set to a relative expression will be relocatable if you request
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relocatable output using the <span class="samp">-r</span> option. That means that a
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further link operation may change the value of the symbol. The symbol's
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section will be the section of the relative expression.
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<p>A symbol set to an absolute expression will retain the same value
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through any further link operation. The symbol will be absolute, and
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will not have any particular associated section.
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<p>You can use the builtin function <code>ABSOLUTE</code> to force an expression
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to be absolute when it would otherwise be relative. For example, to
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create an absolute symbol set to the address of the end of the output
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section <span class="samp">.data</span>:
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<pre class="smallexample"> SECTIONS
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.data : { *(.data) _edata = ABSOLUTE(.); }
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}
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<p class="noindent">If <span class="samp">ABSOLUTE</span> were not used, <span class="samp">_edata</span> would be relative to the
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<span class="samp">.data</span> section.
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