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Support a .noinit section for variables
This is inspired by the linker sripts on the AVR architecture, which support a .noinit section (or any section starting with .noinit, actually) for variables that should be allocated an address in RAM, but not be initialized to any particular value (not even zero) on startup. These can then be used to remember values across resets. From the sketch perspective, this works exactly the same as on AVR: Just annote a global variable with `__attribute__((__section__(".noinit")))` and it will have an unpredictable value on power-up and retain its value during resets. To implement this without having to change all board-specific linker scripts, the linker commandline is changed to pass the board-specific linker script to the `--default-script` linker script, and change the main linker script (passed to `--script`, previously `-T`) to a generic "override" linker script. This new generic linker script contains an `INSERT BEFORE` command, which causes the linker to load it *in addition to* the default linker script, while adding an extra `.noinit` output section in the right place. Because these new variables take up RAM but have their own section in the .elf file, they should be accounted for in the size summary after compilation. This is done by adapting the `recipe.size.regex.data` entry to include this new section.
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