You can use the FIXED attribute in an execution region scatter file to create root regions that load and execute at fixed addresses.

FIXED is used to create multiple root regions within a single load region and therefore typically a single ROM device. For example, you can use this to place a function or a block of data, such as a constant table or a checksum, at a fixed address in ROM so that it can be accessed easily through pointers.

If you specify, for example, that some initialization code is to be placed at start of ROM and a checksum at the end of ROM, some of the memory contents might be unused. Use the * or .ANY module selector to flood fill the region between the end of the initialization block and the start of the data block.

To make your code easier to maintain and debug, it is suggested that you use the minimum amount of placement specifications in scatter files and leave the detailed placement of functions and data to the linker.

You cannot specify component objects that have been partially linked. For example, if you partially link the objects obj1.o, obj2.o, and obj3.o together to produce obj_all.o, the component object names are discarded in the resulting object. Therefore, you cannot refer to one of the objects by name, for example, obj1.o. You can refer only to the combined object obj_all.o.