Creating Single Section for Boot Load When .const Section Is Defined

Texas Instruments

Published Date: 01/01/1997

Description

The generation of a .const section that must be included in code for on-chip boot load poses a special problem when linking. In order to include the .const section data it must be grouped with all other needed sections to create a single section to be loaded by the on-chip boot loader. After the code is loaded the .const section data must then be copied to a run location in data memory before exe