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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

Fantastic thanks! Judging from other similar threads, and the fact that Nios uses a global pointer register I was losing hope.

Presumable the address calculation for such global data make take a couple of instructions if it cannot be reached from the GP + immediate offset.