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The SECTIONS directive's GROUP option forces several output sections to be allocated contiguously and in the order listed, unless the UNORDERED operator is used. For example, assume that a section named term_rec contains a termination record for a table in the .data section. You can force the linker to allocate .data and term_rec together:
SECTIONS
{
.text /* Normal output section */
.bss /* Normal output section */
GROUP 0x00001000 : /* Specify a group of sections */
{
.data /* First section in the group */
term_rec /* Allocated immediately after .data */
}
}You can use binding, alignment, or named memory to allocate a GROUP in the same manner as a single output section. In the preceding example, the GROUP is bound to address 0x1000. This means that .data is allocated at 0x1000, and term_rec follows it in memory.