> For such purposes, it would be wonderful if somebody could teach gas
> how to assemble absolute code and make real location of code and base
> for calculation of symbols independent. It probably could be done with
> sections and a cleverly written ldscript (modulo ld bugs), but it's
> nowhere near elegant.
The location of code is already independent from symbol addresses. The
default location is identity-mapped to addresses but that can be changed.
You normally do that by setting a different LMA in a linker script with
the "AT" keyword.
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