Re: [PATCH v1 0/7 SECTOR: Support aligning to flash sector boundary

[Ulf Samuelsson <binutils@emagii.com>]

On 2023-03-13 14:12, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2023, Ulf Samuelsson wrote:
>
>> Since the proposal defines the begin, end and size of a sector as symbols,
>> you can do already today.
>> . = ALIGN(”bank00#04#size”).
>> Right now, the symbols are defined late, but that is easily changed.
> You argued that one point of you introducing the ALLOCATE_SECTOR directive
> was that it naturally dependend on dot, exactly so that the user does
> _not_ have to deal with the artificial names.
>
> So, a builtin function (however implemented) that actually gets you that
> very size for a given address makes the most sense IMHO.

Not really. The proposal is to avoid having to figure out the boundaries 
for each sector.
and to avoid having to maintain files which aligns to the sector.

But I tried implementing

   . = ALIGN(SECTOR);

and that works now.

If "." is within a sector, then it moves "." to beyond the sector,
otherwise it remains as it is.

While

   . = ALIGN(SECTOR("."));

allows you to get the sector for any address, what would be a reasonable 
motivation for having this?

To me, it just adds additional ways of introducing errors by increased 
complexity in the syntax.


Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson

> Ciao,
> Michael.