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diff --git a/ld/ChangeLog b/ld/ChangeLog index 4bae998..7c24d65 100644 --- a/ld/ChangeLog +++ b/ld/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2016-09-20 Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> + + * ld/ld.texinfo (Input Section Basics): Expand the description of + EXCLUDE_FILE. + 2016-09-14 Thomas Preud'homme <thomas.preudhomme@arm.com> * testsuite/ld-arm/cmse-veneers.s: Add a test for ARMv8-M Security diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo index 5944b12..1303a0e 100644 --- a/ld/ld.texinfo +++ b/ld/ld.texinfo @@ -4214,6 +4214,21 @@ they are found in the linker input. In the second example, all @samp{.text} input sections will appear first, followed by all @samp{.rdata} input sections. +When using EXCLUDE_FILE with more than one section, the exclusion only +applies to the section immediately following, for example: +@smallexample +*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*somefile.o) .text .rdata) +@end smallexample +@noindent +will cause all @samp{.text} sections from all files except +@file{somefile.o} to be included, while all @samp{.rdata} sections +from all files, including @file{somefile.o}, will be included. To +exclude the @samp{.rdata} sections from @file{somefile.o} the example +should be modified to: +@smallexample +*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*somefile.o) .text EXCLUDE_FILE (*somefile.o) .rdata) +@end smallexample + You can specify a file name to include sections from a particular file. You would do this if one or more of your files contain special data that needs to be at a particular location in memory. For example: |