SLAU131V October 2004 – February 2020
At times, you may want to load code into one area of memory and run it in another. For example, you may have performance-critical code in slow external memory. The code must be loaded into slow external memory, but it would run faster in fast external memory.
The linker provides a simple way to accomplish this. You can use the SECTIONS directive to direct the linker to allocate a section twice: once to set its load address and again to set its run address. For example:
.fir: load = SLOW_MEM, run = FAST_MEM
Use the load keyword for the load address and the run keyword for the run address.
See Section 3.5 for an overview on run-time relocation.
The application must copy the section from its load address to its run address; this does not happen automatically when you specify a separate run address. (The TABLE operator instructs the linker to produce a copy table; see Section 8.8.4.1.)