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.
always refers to a
location in an output section, it may only appear in an expression
within a SECTIONS
command. The .
symbol may appear
anywhere that an ordinary symbol is allowed in an expression.
Assigning a value to .
will cause the location counter to be
moved. This may be used to create holes in the output section. The
location counter may never be moved backwards.
SECTIONS { output : { file1(.text) . = . + 1000; file2(.text) . += 1000; file3(.text) } = 0x12345678; } |
Note: .
actually refers to the byte offset from the start of the
current containing object. Normally this is the SECTIONS
statement, whoes start address is 0, hence .
can be used as an
absolute address. If .
is used inside a section description
however, it refers to the byte offset from the start of that section,
not an absolute address. Thus in a script like this:
SECTIONS { . = 0x100 .text: { *(.text) . = 0x200 } . = 0x500 .data: { *(.data) . += 0x600 } } |
The `.text' section will be assigned a starting address of 0x100
and a size of exactly 0x200 bytes, even if there is not enough data in
the `.text' input sections to fill this area. (If there is too
much data, an error will be produced because this would be an attempt to
move .
backwards). The `.data' section will start at 0x500
and it will have an extra 0x600 bytes worth of space after the end of
the values from the `.data' input sections and before the end of
the `.data' output section itself.
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