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Re: Vector tables and such...
Hi Mark,
> .long start // 0 - reset
>
> Now I was hoping that the linker would link "start" above with the
> assembler routine "start". (which happens to be in another file)
> However it only allocates the space for a long (filled with zeros)
> and doesn't put the address of "start" at that location.
> Am I missing something or am I assuming the wrong operation with the
> ".long" keyword?
No, .long should work as you expect.
If you run "objdump -dr" on your assembled test code do you see a
reloc for the "start" symbol ?
Is "start" declared in a C or C++ source file ? It is possible that
the compiler is prefixing user symbols with an underscore, so that the
definition of "start" actually becomes "_start".
Cheers
Nick