One of several methods you can use to specify the initial stack pointer and heap bounds is to define the following symbols:

You can define these symbols in an assembly language file, or by using the embedded assembler in C.

For example:

__asm void dummy_function(void)
{
    EXPORT __initial_sp
    EXPORT __heap_base
    EXPORT __heap_limit

__initial_sp EQU STACK_BASE
__heap_base EQU HEAP_BASE
__heap_limit EQU (HEAP_BASE + HEAP_SIZE)
}

The constants STACK_BASE, HEAP_BASE and HEAP_SIZE can be defined in a header file, for example stack.h, as follows:

/* stack.h */
#define HEAP_BASE 0x20100000  /* Example memory addresses */
#define STACK_BASE 0x20200000
#define HEAP_SIZE ((STACK_BASE-HEAP_BASE)/2)
#define STACK_SIZE ((STACK_BASE-HEAP_BASE)/2)