Re: ARM setup: How to load from flash?

[Toralf Lund <toralf at procaptura dot com>]

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> > Tell gcc you don't want start files linked in.  IIRC, it's
> > -nostartfiles.
> >  
> I think what I *really* want is to keep the default routines in these 
> files, but execute additional pieces of code *before* they are loaded 
> (see below). It's probably not that much work to write a custom 
> version of it all, though...

Or maybe I can combine -nostartfiles, some custom start code, and 
explicit link of the startup files in some clever way...

>  
>
>
> That's not the real reason, though. Actually, it's not even true that 
> I'm "using" COFF. So far, I've just loaded plain binary files and 
> simply started execution from the start of the image. These files are 
> created using objcopy -b binary 

That's "-O binary", of course.


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