https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10774
--- Comment #2 from Konrad Schwarz <konrad.schwarz at siemens dot com> --- I believe ELF reserves section names beginning with a dot for its own use, so technically you shouldn't name your sections .FLASH or .ROM. The compiler will issue a diagnostic for a write to a const-qualified object. In your example, the symbols are not const qualified. You would make more use of the type-checking facilities of the compiler with extern char const start_of_FLASH []; This makes the clause about the compiler being able to check writes true. (You would then probably want to replace start_of_FLASH with start_of_ROM in the later example dealing with alignment.) I prefer `&start_of_FLASH' to `& start_of_FLASH'; as I leave a space around binary operators `a & b', it makes it easier to distinguish between the unary and binary meanings of `&'. In the final section, I would write "transformations". There is one transformation from C++ symbol to C symbol names (mangling), and possibly a second transformation from C to assember/linker names (e.g., underscore prepending). Mangling is dealt with `extern "C"'. You could add that from C++, you need to declare `foo' as `extern "C" int foo [];' -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
