You can pass a scatter file through a C preprocessor. This permits access to all the features of the C preprocessor.

Use the first line in the scatter file to specify a preprocessor command that the linker invokes to process the file. The command is of the form:

#! preprocessor [pre_processor_flags]

Most typically the command is #! armcc -E. This passes the scatter file through the armcc preprocessor.

You can:

For example, a scatter file, file.scat, might contain:

#! armcc -E

#define ADDRESS 0x20000000
#include "include_file_1.h"

lr1 ADDRESS
{
    ...
}

The linker parses the preprocessed scatter file and treats the directives as comments.

You can also use preprocessing of a scatter file in conjunction with the --predefine command-line option. For this example: