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<td class="head-ltitle">RGBLINK(5)</td>
<td class="head-vol">File Formats Manual</td>
<td class="head-rtitle">RGBLINK(5)</td>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="NAME"><a class="permalink" href="#NAME">NAME</a></h1>
<code class="Nm">rgblink</code> —
<div class="Nd">linkerscript file format</div>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="DESCRIPTION"><a class="permalink" href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a></h1>
The linkerscript is an external file that allows the user to specify the order
of sections without the need for doing so before assembling each object file.
<p class="Pp">The placement of sections specified in the linkerscript is done
before the sections whose placement is defined in the source code.</p>
<p class="Pp">A linkerscript consists on a series of banks followed by a list of
sections and, optionally, commands. They can be lowercase or uppercase, it
is ignored. Any line can contain a comment starting with
‘<code class="Li">;</code>’ that ends at the end of the
line:</p>
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ROMX $F ; This is a comment
"Functions to read array"
ALIGN 8
"Array aligned to 256 bytes"
WRAMX 2
"Some variables"
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<p class="Pp">Numbers can be in decimal or hexadecimal format (the prefix is
‘<code class="Li">$</code>’). It is an error if any section
name or command are found before setting a bank.</p>
<p class="Pp">Files can be included by using the <var class="Ar">INCLUDE</var>
keyword followed by a string with the path of the file that has to be
included.</p>
<p class="Pp">The possible bank types are: <b class="Sy">ROM0</b>,
<b class="Sy">ROMX</b>, <b class="Sy">VRAM</b>, <b class="Sy">WRAM0</b>,
<b class="Sy">WRAMX</b>, <b class="Sy">OAM</b> and <b class="Sy">HRAM</b>.
Types <b class="Sy">ROMX</b>, <b class="Sy">VRAM</b>,
<b class="Sy">WRAMX</b> and <b class="Sy">SRAM</b> are banked, which means
that it is needed to specify a bank after the type.</p>
<p class="Pp">When a new bank statement is found, sections found after it will
be placed right from the beginning of that bank. If the linkerscript
switches to a different bank and then it comes back to the previous one it
will continue from the last address that was used.</p>
<p class="Pp">The only two commands are <var class="Ar">ORG</var> and
<var class="Ar">ALIGN</var>:</p>
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<li><var class="Ar">ORG</var> sets the address in which new sections will be
placed. It can not be lower than the current address.</li>
<li><var class="Ar">ALIGN</var> will increase the address until it is aligned
to the specified boundary (it tries to set to 0 the number of bits
specified after the command: <b class="Sy">ALIGN 8</b> will align to
$100).</li>
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<p class="Pp">Note: The bank, alignment, address and type of sections can be
specified both in the source code and in the linkerscript. For a section to
be able to be placed with the linkerscript the bank must be left unassigned
in the source code or be the same as the one specified in the linkerscript.
The address and alignment musn't be set.</p>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="SEE_ALSO"><a class="permalink" href="#SEE_ALSO">SEE
ALSO</a></h1>
<a class="Xr">rgbasm(1)</a>, <a class="Xr">rgblink(1)</a>,
<a class="Xr">rgbfix(1)</a>, <a class="Xr">rgbds(5)</a>,
<a class="Xr">rgbds(7)</a>
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<h1 class="Sh" id="HISTORY"><a class="permalink" href="#HISTORY">HISTORY</a></h1>
<code class="Nm">rgblink</code> was originally written by Carsten
Sørensen as part of the ASMotor package, and was later packaged in
RGBDS by Justin Lloyd. It is now maintained by a number of contributors at
<a class="Lk" href="https://github.com/rednex/rgbds">https://github.com/rednex/rgbds</a>.
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<td class="foot-date">January 27, 2018</td>
<td class="foot-os">RGBDS Manual</td>
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