nrf: discard arm exception sections

Since these exceptions are unused, don't include them in the output
binary.

Signed-off-by: Sean Cross <sean@xobs.io>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/ports/nrf/boards/common.template.ld b/ports/nrf/boards/common.template.ld
index 334a3506e..5982b8ba0 100644
--- a/ports/nrf/boards/common.template.ld
+++ b/ports/nrf/boards/common.template.ld
@@ -70,18 +70,6 @@ SECTIONS
         _etext = .;        /* define a global symbol at end of code */
     } >FLASH_FIRMWARE
 
-    .ARM.extab :
-    {
-        *(.ARM.extab* .gnu.linkonce.armextab.*)
-    } >FLASH_FIRMWARE
-
-    .ARM :
-    {
-        __exidx_start = .;
-        *(.ARM.exidx*)
-        __exidx_end = .;
-    } >FLASH_FIRMWARE
-
     /* used by the startup to initialize data */
     _sidata = .;
 
@@ -145,6 +133,14 @@ SECTIONS
         . = ALIGN(4);
     } >RAM
 
+    /* Remove exception unwinding information, since Circuit Python
+       does not support this GCC feature. */
+    /DISCARD/ :
+    {
+        *(.ARM.extab* .gnu.linkonce.armextab.*)
+        *(.ARM.exidx*)
+    }
+
     /* Remove information from the standard libraries */
     /*
     /DISCARD/ :