SLAU131V October 2004 – February 2020
The boot address of a bootloaded object is where its raw data exists in ROM before power-on.
The boot, load, and run addresses for an object may all be the same; this is commonly the case for .const data. If they are different, the object's contents must be copied to the correct location before the object may be used.
The boot address may be different than the load address. The bootloader is responsible for copying the raw data to the load address.
The boot address is not controlled by the linker command file or recorded in the object file; it is strictly a convention shared by the bootloader and the program.