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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary?
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On 16/06/2020 19:19, Tero Koskinen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I haven't tried with your example, but is GNAT specific pragma
> Linker_Section acceptable?

I can't really see how it would be as it would still require the
compiler to actually generate the correct value in .data or .rodata
space rather than a 0x0 which gets filled in later by elaboration.

Interesting though.

I wrote the above before trying. Trying to place it in ".rodata..."
caused a compiler error, placing it in .data worked, but there is still
elaboration code. Although changing the section caused many more
references to the object for some reason.

Anyone know how to get the data sections to not be disassembled as
instructions?