Placing sections in regions

The place at and place in directives place sets of sections with similar attributes into previously defined regions. See place at directive and place in directive.

Reserving regions of memory

The reserve region directive specifies that no content may be placed in certain memory regions. See reserve region.

Making sets of sections with special requirements

The define block directive makes it possible to create empty sections with specific or expanding sizes, specific alignments, sequentially sorted sections of different types, etc.

The define overlay directive makes it possible to create an area of memory that can contain several overlay images. See define block directive, and define overlay directive.

Initializing the application

The directives initialize and do not initialize control how the application should be started. With these directives, the application can initialize global symbols at startup, and copy pieces of code. The initializers can be stored in several ways, for example, they can be compressed. See initialize directive and do not initialize directive.

Keeping removed sections

The keep directive retains sections even though they are not referred to by the rest of the application, which means it is equivalent to the root concept in the assembler and compiler. See keep directive.

Specifying the contents of linker-generated sections

The define section directive can be used for creating specific sections with content and calculations that are only available at link time. See define section directive.

Additional more specialized directives:

use init format directive, use init table directive