MSPM0G3507: variables to reference start and end of .text section

Chris HOOGENBOOM

Part Number: MSPM0G3507
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CCSTUDIO

Tool/software:

anyone know the variables to reference start and end of the .text section? usually _etext or __start_text or similar but none are working in CCSTUDIO.

6 months ago

0 Kier 6 months ago

Mastermind 8855 points

What does your manual say about it?

The manual for my uC says this:

0 Sal Ye 6 months ago

TI__Mastermind 24305 points

Hi Chris,

that depends on the compiler side, not the device specific.

You can find the ARM assembly documents:https://www.ti.com/lit/pdf/SPNU118

As Kier post here, you can see the chapter 8.5.10.5:

You can find similar statement in TI CLANG user guide:https://software-dl.ti.com/codegen/docs/tiarmclang/compiler_tools_user_guide/

B.R.

Sal

0 Chris HOOGENBOOM 6 months ago in reply to Sal Ye

Intellectual 281 points

I ended up adding this to my linker script:

__start_text = . ;

__end_text = .;

in the correct locations to get them to be set to the start and end of text section.

0 Sal Ye 6 months ago in reply to Chris HOOGENBOOM

TI__Mastermind 24305 points

Hi Chris,

Thanks for feedback here.

B.R.

Sal

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MSPM0G3507: variables to reference start and end of .text section