RE: [avr-gcc-list] strange behaviour of avr-ld, maybe a bug?

[Boyapati, Anitha]

Hello Max,

>
>In the linker script be sure the MEMORY command is:
>MEMORY
>{
>  text   (rx)   : ORIGIN = 0, LENGTH = 32K
>  data   (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x800060, LENGTH = 2K
>  eeprom (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x810000, LENGTH = 1K
>}
>
>text region is as long as 32KB, as atmega32's flash.
>
>If you compile you will obtain a binary bigger than 32KB
>I would expect a linker error like:
>region `text' overflowed by xx bytes
>

I don't think so. If .text section alone is more than 32KB, linker will 
complain. I don't think that is the case here.


>if you run avr-size, you get:
>
>AVR Memory Usage
>----------------
>Device: atmega32
>
>Program:   33408 bytes (102.0% Full)
>(.text + .data + .bootloader)
>
>Data:       1500 bytes (73.2% Full)
>(.data + .bss + .noinit)
>
>
>
>flash is 102.0% Full... but linker doesn't warn

It is the program section which is 102.0% full not .text section. AFAIK linker 
script is not handling the size of PROGRAM segment. 

HTH
Anitha