gnu ld is a shit linker

So today I was trying to build a module where a few functions were placed at fixed addresses, well it turns out there is absolutely no way to do such a thing with ld. Sure you can place a section at a fixed address, but that is not what I want, I want to place a particular function at a fixed address, but I want this function to be in the same section as the rest of the code. Also I need the other sections to be fit in around these fixed allocations. Well that is not possible, ld does not perform any kind of free space allocation. There is no way to even make it do what I want as far as I can tell, the way its designed is just completely incompatible even with a hack solution. So of course now I have to write my own linker.

 

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