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Part 1 explained the linker script. Part 2 explained the startup and the vector table. Part 3 built the ELF. Now we look at the artifact that quietly ties all of those together: the linker map file. If you ever wonder “did my vector table really end up at the flash base?” or “why is my .data empty?” or “what did –gc-sections remove?” — the map file is where the answers live. 1 ...

This is the first post in my Cortex‑M7 without hardware series, which aims to build an Executable and Linkable Format executable (ELF) and run it without hardware (using emulated / simulated STM32F746 microcontroller unit. 1). ...