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Add new heuristic for resolving instruction sizes. Add new heuristic for resolving instruction sizes. This applies to the the decision between extended and base page addressing by calculating the range of possible addresses (if reasonably knowable) and deciding on whether to force extended addressing based on that. (If the whole range is outside the direct page, extended addressing is required.)
author William Astle <lost@l-w.ca>
date Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:06:43 -0600
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>Chapter 4. LWLINK</H1
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>The LWTOOLS linker is called LWLINK. This chapter documents the various features
of the linker.</P
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>The binary for LWLINK is called "lwlink". Note that the binary is in lower
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><CODE
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>--decb</CODE
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>Selects the DECB output format target. This is equivalent to <CODE
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><CODE
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>--output=FILE</CODE
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>This option specifies the name of the output file. If not specified, the
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>--format=TYPE</CODE
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>This option specifies the output format. Valid values are <CODE
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>This option specifies the raw output format.
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><CODE
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>--script=FILE</CODE
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>-s</CODE
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>This option allows specifying a linking script to override the linker's
built in defaults.</P
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>--section-base=SECT=BASE</CODE
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>Cause section SECT to load at base address BASE. This will be prepended
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>This will output a description of the link result to FILE.</P
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><CODE
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>--library=LIBSPEC</CODE
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>Load a library using the library search path. LIBSPEC will have "lib" prepended
and ".a" appended.</P
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><CODE
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>--library-path=DIR</CODE
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>-L DIR</CODE
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>Add DIR to the library search path.</P
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><CODE
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>--debug</CODE
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>-d</CODE
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>This option increases the debugging level. It is only useful for LWTOOLS
developers.</P
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><CODE
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>--help</CODE
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>-?</CODE
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>This provides a listing of command line options and a brief description
of each.</P
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>This will display a usage summary
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>--version</CODE
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>This will display the version of LWLINK.</P
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