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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...

I almost got it... But I'm still confusing that how to understand the symbol in linker script. It seems that we can take it as a variable in source files, but in fact, there is no space allocated, why don't we take it as a constant and why operator& which will return its address can get its actual value???

Thanks again,

david