Controlling Alignment

Use the ALIGN argument in a SECTIONS or GROUP directive to specify an alignment relative to the start of the physical address.

Example of the ALIGN directive shows an example.

Listing 1. Example of the ALIGN directive

SECTIONS
{
   GROUP: 
   {
      .init ALIGN(0x1000) : {}
      .text ALIGN(0x1000) : {}
   } > text

}

This example defines two sections named .init and .text . At runtime, each section will be loaded at the next available address that is evenly divisible by 0x1000 in the memory area named text on the target platform.