Re: [avr-gcc-list] RE: avr-gcc-list Digest, Vol 6, Issue 10

[E. Weddington]

> "Larry Barello" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Speaking from a point of complete ignorance: can the 
elf->coff
> > converter tool simply rename every segment found in the 
FLASH
> > section into one .text section for the purposes of 
output?  Does the
> > COFF parser care about different sections anyway?  All 
the linking
> > has been done at this point, right?  So renaming 
sections shouldn't
> > bother the code.
> 
> Only over my dead body. :-)
> 
<snip> 
> Btw., it's not to /rename/ sections, instead several 
sections have to
> be /concatenated/.  This functionality is currently not 
available in
> objcopy.

And wouldn't you have to watch out for bootloader code, 
where it's in a different named section but shouldn't be 
concatenated to .text because it's loaded at a specific 
address?

Eric