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author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2004-11-19 09:38:04 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2004-11-19 09:38:04 +0000 |
commit | 36fd903fe28894acb253ede2238a0875a9e92224 (patch) | |
tree | 47420cdd3a5fc00f30d97d7e9cb2b60e3dcbc1ca /ld/ld.texinfo | |
parent | 92c23ae7814a5129333055083040226f423a5cde (diff) | |
download | binutils-redhat-36fd903fe28894acb253ede2238a0875a9e92224.tar.gz |
PR 518
Update the descriptions of the ORIGIN and LENGTH fields in the MEMORY command,
to explicitly state that symbols cannot be used in their expressions.
Diffstat (limited to 'ld/ld.texinfo')
-rw-r--r-- | ld/ld.texinfo | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index ab78ece6ff..b21313a6b2 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -3843,19 +3843,19 @@ attributes. @kindex ORIGIN = @kindex o = @kindex org = -The @var{origin} is an expression for the start address of the memory -region. The expression must evaluate to a constant before memory -allocation is performed, which means that you may not use any section -relative symbols. The keyword @code{ORIGIN} may be abbreviated to -@code{org} or @code{o} (but not, for example, @code{ORG}). +The @var{origin} is an numerical expression for the start address of +the memory region. The expression must evaluate to a constant and it +cannot involve any symbols. The keyword @code{ORIGIN} may be +abbreviated to @code{org} or @code{o} (but not, for example, +@code{ORG}). @kindex LENGTH = @kindex len = @kindex l = The @var{len} is an expression for the size in bytes of the memory region. As with the @var{origin} expression, the expression must -evaluate to a constant before memory allocation is performed. The -keyword @code{LENGTH} may be abbreviated to @code{len} or @code{l}. +be numerical only and must evaluate to a constant. The keyword +@code{LENGTH} may be abbreviated to @code{len} or @code{l}. In the following example, we specify that there are two memory regions available for allocation: one starting at @samp{0} for 256 kilobytes, |