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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

Access linker symbol from .C file

I'm trying to access a linker symbol from my C file. The idea is to find out where the end of my code and R/O memory is in flash so I can use the remainder for storage. I have the following in my...
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20 years ago

The problem you had is related to the fact that you declared the extern variable as "int", that means the compiler will generate GP-relative addressing, that is not the right one in your case.

Take a look at the post "Disabling GP-addressing in generated source code" on this forum...

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PJ