Dear Sebastien Carlier,

In message <sebastien.carl...@1e724f1c01c015f817d5e33b57e7134d4468dbcc> you 
wrote:
>
> It looks like the purpose is to optimally fill a flash sector with
> definitions, is this accurate?  Why is this needed?  Beside the obvious

Correct.

> (reset vectors, startup code), is there any reason to prefer any given
> definition to go into the sector being filled?

Well, we want to squeeze as many code into the first sectores, to
minimize the unused space.  So far this was trivial, as I just could
pick object files of suitable size.  Now we have to come up with a new
solution.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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