[U-Boot] how compilor know where .text section starts from?
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Wed Dec 3 12:49:04 CET 2008
Dear hank.peng <pengxihan at gmail.com>,
repl: bad addresses:
hank.peng <pengxihan at gmail.com> -- no at-sign after local-part (<)
Please fix the mail address you provide in your headers as return
address. Either get rid of the dot, or add quotes.
In message <389deec70812022235v3f7ebedav57a62bcca04a19f0 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> I am new to uboot and reading source code, I have a question: how does
> compilor know where .text section starts from?
It doesn't. The compiler knows not much about the location of
segments. That's a matter the linker deals with.
> For example, I am using MPC8548CDS, document says .text section begins
> from 0xfff8000, but I haven't find this value in u-boot.lds?
> So it must be specified in some other place, right?
See board/<name>/config.mk
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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