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Chapter 7 Accessing and managing symbols with armlink The following topics describe how to access and manage symbols with the linker, armlink: Tasks • About mapping symbols on page 7-3 • Accessing linker-defined symbols on page 7-4 • Using scatter files on page 7-11 • Importing linker-defined symbols in C and C++ on page 7-12 • Importing linker-defined symbols in ARM assembler on page 7-13 • Accessing symbols in another image on page 7-17 • Creating a symdefs file on page 7-18 • Outputting a subset of the global symbols on page 7-19 • Reading a symdefs file on page 7-20 • Specifying steering files on the linker command-line on page 7-24 • Hiding and renaming global symbols with a steering file on page 7-27 • Using $Super$$ and $Sub$$ to patch symbol definitions on page 7-28. Concepts • Region-related symbols on page 7-5 • Region name values when not scatter-loading on page 7-10 • Section-related symbols on page 7-14 • What is a steering file? on page 7-23. Reference • Image$$ execution region symbols on page 7-6 • Load$$ execution region symbols on page 7-7 ARM DUI 0474C Copyright © 2010-2011 ARM. All rights reserved. 7-1 ID080411 Non-Confidential
• Load$$LR$$ load region symbols on page 7-9 • Image symbols on page 7-15 • Input section symbols on page 7-16 • Symdefs file format on page 7-21 • Steering file command summary on page 7-25 • Steering file format on page 7-26. Accessing and managing symbols with armlink ARM DUI 0474C Copyright © 2010-2011 ARM. All rights reserved. 7-2 ID080411 Non-Confidential
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Contents ARM Compiler toolchain Usi
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Contents 7.15 Creating a symdefs fi
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Chapter 1 Conventions and feedback
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Chapter 2 Overview of the linker Th
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Concepts • Demand paging on page
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2.3 Linker command-line options lis
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• --keep_protected_symbols on pag
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• --eager_load_debug, --no_eager_
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2.5 What the linker outputs 2.5.1 S
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Chapter 3 Linking models supported
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3.2 Bare-metal linking model 3.2.1
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Linking models supported by armlink
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3.5.1 See also • There are restri
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3.7 Concepts common to both BPABI a
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Image structure and generation •
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4.1.1 See also Image structure and
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4.3 Load view and execution view of
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4.4 Methods of specifying an image
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Developing Software for ARM ® Proc
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8.17 Selecting veneer input section
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Compiler Reference: • __attribute
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8.20 Restrictions on placing __at s
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8.21.1 See also Using scatter files
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8.23 Placing a key in flash memory
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8.25 Placement of sections with ove
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8.27 Example of placing code in a r
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8.29 Example of placing ARM C++ lib
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8.31 Reserving an empty region Usin
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8.32 About creating regions on page
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8.33 Overalignment of execution reg
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8.35 Expression evaluation in scatt
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Chapter 10 BPABI and SysV shared li
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10.10 Linker options for SysV model
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10.21 Addressing modes in the BPABI
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10.23 About symbol versioning 10.23
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Features of the Base Platform linki
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11.2 Example scatter file for the B
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