Hi Ian, > You originally said that the .data section was not properly loaded into > the LMA. What did you mean, precisely? I am loading the image using debugger. My VMA and LMA addresses are different. When I checked a global initialized variable, the value is 0 and did not contain the value that is initialized. Below is the snapshot of the linker script for the .data section .data ORIGIN(rtarea) : AT (__code_ram_end) { __data_ram = .; *(.data) *(.sdata) SORT(CONSTRUCTORS) __data_end = .; } > rtarea I got the VMA as 0x600000 and LMA as 0x28ef294. Please if anything is wrong in the above. Chandru -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/How-to-check-if-.data-section-is-loaded-properly-in-LMA-tp32801216p32801452.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.