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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Is it possible to select multiple memory regions for global variables?

Is it possible to select a memory region for specific global (RW or RO) variables? This would be different from the usual region for the RW/RO data. Effectively I need the loader to copy from the...
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13 years ago

Sure, you can use the attribute directive.

For example:

int Var1 _attribute__ (section (".mem_data"));

int Var2;

This would place the Var1 in the specified memory section, while Var2 is still in the default memory region.

The same method applies to functions.