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Placing variables in memory

Hi, I'm developing an application with CyclloneII and I have the issue below: is there a way to place a variable at particular address in memory, something like the "_AT_" flag of som...
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19 years ago

Hi Scott,

I see...

Thanks a lot, now I`m using pointers and things are going well.

Best regards,

Emme.

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originally posted by smcnutt@Nov 21 2006, 05:12 PM

hi emme,

> note that i want to put the variable in some fixed location, not in some section

> like .text,.rodata et., or provided the allocation in a section, i want the freedom to

> choose the address within that memory.

the compiler puts variables, code, etc. into sections ... there's no choice in this matter other than

specifying a compiler output section ... so, if you want to do things at run time, you'll have to use a

pointer:

alt_u8 *pdummybyte = (alt_u8 *) 0x0080000;

or something similar.

regards,

--scott

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