Dear Wolfgang,
On 2010-11-19 09:08:33, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
In message sebastien.carlier@1e724f1c01c015f817d5e33b57e7134d4468dbcc you wrote:
It looks like the purpose is to optimally fill a flash sector with definitions, is this accurate? Why is this needed? Beside the obvious
Correct.
(reset vectors, startup code), is there any reason to prefer any given definition to go into the sector being filled?
Well, we want to squeeze as many code into the first sectores, to minimize the unused space.
I am still not getting why the code needs to be split this way, rather than being a continuous segment followed by an environment sector. Whether the environment sector is in the middle of the binary or immediately after the binary does not make a difference (does it?), so the motivation must be something else...
So far this was trivial, as I just could pick object files of suitable size. Now we have to come up with a new solution.
Sounds like you enjoyed solving knapsack problems :-)
Regards,