I'm working on an embedded program where I have a custom linker script. The program works, but I have noticed that there is possibly something amiss with how the linker is placing a couple of sections in memory.

Here are the relevant parts of the linker script:

MEMORY {
    ROM (rx)    : ORIGIN = 0x00100000, LENGTH = 16k
    RAM (rwx)   : ORIGIN = 0x00200000, LENGTH = 4k
}

SECTIONS {
    /* Other sections go here. */
    .data : {
...
    } >RAM AT>ROM

    .bss : {
...
    } >RAM

    .stack : {
...
    } >RAM
...
}

And here is the relevant part of the MAP file:

.data           0x00200040        0x0 load address 0x001003d4
                0x001003d4                __data_load = LOADADDR (.data)
                0x00200040                __data_start = .
 *(.data)
 *(.data*)
                0x00200040                . = ALIGN (0x4)
                0x00200040                _edata = .

.igot.plt       0x00200040        0x0 load address 0x001003d4
 .igot.plt      0x00000000        0x0 ./debug/sam7s_startup.o

.bss            0x00200040        0x0 load address 0x001003d4
                0x00200040                __bss_start__ = .
 *(.bss)
 *(.bss*)
 *(COMMON)
                0x00200040                . = ALIGN (0x4)
                0x00200040                _ebss = .
                0x00200040                __bss_end__ = .
                0x00200040                PROVIDE (end, _ebss)
                0x00200040                PROVIDE (_end, _ebss)
                0x00200040                PROVIDE (__end__, _ebss)

.stack          0x00200040      0x200 load address 0x001003d4
                0x00200040                __stack_start__ = .

So from the map file it looks to me like the .bss and .stack sections are getting load addresses in ROM. I think this because of these two lines:

.bss 0x00200040 0x0 load address 0x001003d4
.s

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