Dear Andy Green, I appreciate your message. ld scripts are Linker Command Language files and after executing ld command we still have a relocatable ELF code. Can ld make an absolute object code(a bootable image)? On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Andy Green <andy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/29/10 08:09, Somebody in the thread at some point said: > >> I want to obtain an executable image from C files by gcc for 32 bit Intel >> CPU. >> I do not want gcc add some headers and so on. I want a code with >> absolute addresses so that I can write the code directly on a BIOS >> chip and boot a computer from it. >> >> Can gcc do that? Do i need any extra tool to do it? > > It's not a gcc issue, look into ld scripts. > > Here's an ld script I use to place sections from a gcc link of a bootloader: > > http://git.warmcat.com/cgi-bin/cgit/qi/tree/src/cpu/imx31/qi.lds?h=txtr > > -Andy >
