RE: [ECOS] Linker script question? where is the fixed_vectors section?ARM

["Qiang Huang" <jameshq at liverpool dot ac dot uk>]

Thank you.
So Can I guess  that the fixed_vector(with initialzation values set to zero)
works the way like the .bss section?


-----Original Message-----
From: ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com
[mailto:ecos-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com]On Behalf Of Jonathan Larmour
Sent: 24 January 2003 06:59
To: Gary D. Thomas
Cc: Qiang Huang; eCos Discussion
Subject: Re: [ECOS] Linker script question? where is the fixed_vectors
section?ARM


Gary D. Thomas wrote:
>
> The fixed_vectors, along with any static data, will be stored in the
> ROM image just after the end of the TEXT segment.  If you look at any
> ROM startup code, you'll see that it has to move this data from the
> actual ROM space to the appropriate place in RAM before the system
> can begin.

Not quite right. It doesn't have the LOAD attribute, so the space is
reserved in the linker's memory map, but nothing actually appears in the
ROM image.

Jifl
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