Scatter loading provides a more flexible mechanism for mapping code and data onto your memory map than the armlink -ro-base and -rw-base options. These options are described in detail in Chapter 6 Linker of the ARM Software Development Toolkit Reference Guide.

The following example shows a scatter loading application that runs under the ARMulator, and also uses sprintf() from the Embedded C library. The example displays the linker-generated scatter symbols on the screen. It is not normally necessary to access these linker symbols in application code (they are only really needed in initialization code). The linker symbols are accessed here for illustration only.

The code for this example is in Examples\rom\ARMul_Scatter in your SDT installation directory (normally c:\ARM250\Examples\rom\ARMul_Scatter).