[Mark McLeod]

I'm a proponent of the pragma approach Ken described rather than modifying the linker directives. The pragma's are obvious and self-commenting in the code while the linker script is hidden and doesn't leave a discernable audit trail. Misuse of the linker script is also harder to ferret out from a distance.

Linker script modification is obviously not an issue for the current knowledgable programmer, but more so for clarity when future programmers borrow code and they can't figure out why it doesn't work.