LPC1768: Update linker script, support split heap #430
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Summary of changes
I ran into an issue when running the new network tests where the LPC1768 was running out of heap space. This MCU has two 32k banks of RAM, where one bank is used as heap, bss, and stack, half of the other bank is used for Ethernet buffers, and the second half of the third bank is unused.
This PR activates split heap support on the device, enabling all unused space to be used as heap. This nearly triples the amount of available heap on this target (if Ethernet is not used at least)! And it can now run the nanostack TCP test without crashing from running out of memory (though it still doesn't pass...).
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