The purpose of .work section

[Sebastian Huber]

On 10/02/2012 05:56 PM, SAeeD wrote:
> 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?

It uses the remaining space of the REGION_WORK.  Please have a look at the GNU 
linker manual for the details (see also REGION_ALIAS).

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