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SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT alternative in ARM Compiler

Peter Kunakh

Hi,

I need to sort address and size aligned symbols in the memory section by descending size using ARM Compiler scatter file.
In GNU toolchain this is easily achieved by using SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT keyword in the linker script.

In ARM compiler scatter file the memory section looks as below:

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SRAM_SORTED +0 ALIGN 0x1000 UNINIT
{
*(.bss.*sorted_*)
}
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

In armlink user guide there are options like --any_sort_order and SORTTYPE, which do not produce descending size sorting for the section though.

Please, suggest what should be the configuration for the linker to produce the needed result?

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