How to create and store data table in Flash

Maybe it is simply not possible to do what I want to do in the way I was hoping.

What is the "usual" way to assign memory addresses to data tables stored in flash? Is the Linker the "normal" way to do this?

What I am ultimately after is to have one .c (or .h, or whatever) file that I can convert into on .hex file (or .srec, or whatever) that can then be programmed into a Flash device. I would like to assign specific address locations to specific constants in doing this.

Is the Linker the only way to do this?

Thanks for your help!