<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Script Format - 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="Scripts.html#Scripts" title="Scripts"> <link rel="prev" href="Basic-Script-Concepts.html#Basic-Script-Concepts" title="Basic Script Concepts"> <link rel="next" href="Simple-Example.html#Simple-Example" title="Simple Example"> <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="Script-Format"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Simple-Example.html#Simple-Example">Simple Example</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Basic-Script-Concepts.html#Basic-Script-Concepts">Basic Script Concepts</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Scripts.html#Scripts">Scripts</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">3.2 Linker Script Format</h3> <p><a name="index-linker-script-format-368"></a>Linker scripts are text files. <p>You write a linker script as a series of commands. Each command is either a keyword, possibly followed by arguments, or an assignment to a symbol. You may separate commands using semicolons. Whitespace is generally ignored. <p>Strings such as file or format names can normally be entered directly. If the file name contains a character such as a comma which would otherwise serve to separate file names, you may put the file name in double quotes. There is no way to use a double quote character in a file name. <p>You may include comments in linker scripts just as in C, delimited by ‘<samp><span class="samp">/*</span></samp>’ and ‘<samp><span class="samp">*/</span></samp>’. As in C, comments are syntactically equivalent to whitespace. </body></html>