[LLVMdev] [lld] Linker script findings.

[Stephen Checkoway]

On Jan 7, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:

> Also the linker script functionality is only needed by ELF and not anything else. It should be contained only within ELF.

I don't have an opinion on where it is needed, but I've found linker scripts to be useful in other contexts. Here's a simple one I wrote that has no relation to ELF:

OUTPUT_FORMAT(binary)
OUTPUT(flash.bin)
SECTIONS
{
        .text :
        {
                . = 0x2000;
                LONG(0xAABBCCDD);
                LONG(Init);
                LONG(Store);
                LONG(Erase);
                LONG(Write);
                *(.text)
                *(.rodata)
        }
}

(The documentation seemed to imply that I could write .text 0x2000 : AT(0), but that never worked for me, so I just stripped off 0x2000 bytes of 0 at the beginning.)

Maybe there's a way to do that without linker scripts, but this was very easy.

All of this is to say if it's not a lot of extra work, linker scripts should be supported outside of ELF.

-- 
Stephen Checkoway