The purpose of .work section

[SAeeD]

According to c/src/lib/libbsp/arm/shared/startup/linkcmds.base, it takes
the whole space of RAM:
    RamBase = ORIGIN (REGION_WORK);
    RamSize = LENGTH (REGION_WORK);

Why the whole space?
Why some BSPs like CSB337 don't have .work in their linkcmds? Is it
unnecessary?

Thanks,
SAeeD

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Sebastian Huber <
sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:

> The purpose of the .work section is to allocate a chunk from the address
> space for the RTEMS work space and the C program heap.
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