You can convert specific sections of the object file by name with the hex conversion utility SECTIONS directive. You can also specify those sections that you want to locate in ROM at a different address than the load address specified in the linker command file. If you:

• Use a SECTIONS directive, the utility converts only the sections that you list in the directive and ignores all other sections in the object file.
• Do not use a SECTIONS directive, the utility converts all initialized sections that fall within the configured memory.

Uninitialized sections are never converted, whether or not you specify them in a SECTIONS directive.

Use the SECTIONS directive in a command file. (See Section 13.3.2.) The general syntax is:

For more similarity with the linker's SECTIONS directive, you can use colons after the section names (in place of the equal sign on the boot keyboard). For example, the following statements are equivalent:

SECTIONS { .text: .data: boot }

SECTIONS { .text: .data = boot }

In the example below, the object file contains six initialized sections: .text, .data, .econst, .vectors, .coeff, and .tables. If you want only .text and .data to be converted, use this a SECTIONS directive:

SECTIONS { .text: .data: }

To configure both of these sections for boot loading, add the boot keyword:

SECTIONS { .text = boot .data = boot }

For more information about --boot and other command line options associated with boot tables, see Section 13.3 and Section 13.12.