Hello. My kernel works fine, but perhaps it will work better if I make a ld script? Could you tell me what it does?
Cheers,
Adrian
ld scripts
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carbonBased
RE:ld scripts
If your kernel works, you don't need a linker script 
Linker scripts just tell the linker how, and where you want to link your code.
In other words, you can tell it, at which address to put each section. What to include in each section. Define addresses at certain points and make them available to your code, etc, etc.
However, you don't _need_ them, usually ever... they're just nice if you want complete control. I needed them for my kernel, but I needed to link in a specific way to be multiboot compatible, and I wanted to ignore certain sections (ie, the nasm comment section... worthless!)
Cheers,
Jeff
Linker scripts just tell the linker how, and where you want to link your code.
In other words, you can tell it, at which address to put each section. What to include in each section. Define addresses at certain points and make them available to your code, etc, etc.
However, you don't _need_ them, usually ever... they're just nice if you want complete control. I needed them for my kernel, but I needed to link in a specific way to be multiboot compatible, and I wanted to ignore certain sections (ie, the nasm comment section... worthless!)
Cheers,
Jeff