<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Output Section Region - Untitled</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Untitled"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes" title="Output Section Attributes"> <link rel="prev" href="Output-Section-Constraint.html#Output-Section-Constraint" title="Output Section Constraint"> <link rel="next" href="Output-Section-Phdr.html#Output-Section-Phdr" title="Output Section Phdr"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- This file documents the GNU linker LD (GNU Binutils) version 2.26. Copyright (C) 1991-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Output-Section-Region"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Output-Section-Phdr.html#Output-Section-Phdr">Output Section Phdr</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Output-Section-Constraint.html#Output-Section-Constraint">Output Section Constraint</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Output-Section-Attributes.html#Output-Section-Attributes">Output Section Attributes</a> <hr> </div> <h5 class="subsubsection">3.6.8.6 Output Section Region</h5> <p><a name="index-g_t_003e_0040var_007bregion_007d-487"></a><a name="index-section_002c-assigning-to-memory-region-488"></a><a name="index-memory-regions-and-sections-489"></a>You can assign a section to a previously defined region of memory by using ‘<samp><span class="samp">></span><var>region</var></samp>’. See <a href="MEMORY.html#MEMORY">MEMORY</a>. <p>Here is a simple example: <pre class="smallexample"> MEMORY { rom : ORIGIN = 0x1000, LENGTH = 0x1000 } SECTIONS { ROM : { *(.text) } >rom } </pre> </body></html>