trying to understand the link process

outer_space wrote:
> Here are some excerpts from my .map file.  I'm using Cstartup.S v1.1
> from atmel and Cstartup_SAM7.c v1.3 also from atmel.
>
> *(.glue_7t)
> *(.glue_7)
>                 0x00005e18                . = ALIGN (0x4)
>
> What is in the .glue_7t and .glue_7 sections?  Where do they come from,
> why are they there, what documentation is it described in?

As far as I know at least the interface-functions for interworking
generated internaly are placed in the glue-sections. It should be
documented in the binutils/ld-manual but I'm not sure. Also see the file
elf32-arm.c from the GNU binutils sources.

> Also I have an unrelated question about the mthomas hello world example.
> Why does #include "lib_AT91SAM7S64.h" have to be commented out?  I see
> that functions from this library are used but they are declared in the
> board.h file by copy/pasting from lib_AT91SAM7S64.h.  Why didnt he just
> include the library header rather than copy the declarations into
> another file?

I guess you mean the at91sam7s64_uart_simple-example. Yes, this has not
been well done - it's from the days when I started playing around with
the SAM7-eval-board. I have done some small updates now and the
"redundant" code has been removed, see
http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.de/avr_projects/arm_projects/index_at91.html#at91uart
Please check the AT91SAM7 "gamma"-example from the same page too -
newer, more options.

Martin Thomas