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20 years ago

How to declare linker symbol in C files

Dear all, As we known, the generated automatically linker script defined many symbols for use. For example: __bss_start. We can use these symbols in source files, for example, in *.S ...
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20 years ago

Thanks very much for your reply...

I am still a little confuse...

__bss_start is a pointer, it's value equal to the start address of bss section

why

printf("%u\n",(unsigned int)&__bss_start); but not

printf("%u\n",(unsigned int)__bss_start);

Thanks again,

David