The linker script, as we already know, contains the instructions for the linker on how to assemble together the components of an embedded system. More specifically, it describes the sections mapped in memory and how they are deployed into the flash and the RAM of the target, as in the example provided in Chapter 2, Work Environment and Workflow Optimization.
In most embedded devices, and in particular our reference platform, the .text area, which contains all the executable code, should include the special subsection dedicated to store the IV at the very beginning of the executable image.
We integrate the linker script by adding the .isr_vector section at the beginning of .text area, before the rest of the code:
.text :
{
*(.isr_vector)
*(.text*)
*(.rodata*)
} > FLASH
Defining a read-only section in flash which is dedicated to the vector table is the...
