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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

pointer out of range link error

I have some code running from SDRAM that references an on chip RAM. In porting from NIOS to NIOS II I'm getting the link error global pointer relative address out of range I saw a topic t...
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21 years ago

> yes, it does solve the problem

Great! I'll use this myself then ... when/if I encounter the problem.

Just note that it will affect performance since full addresses will

be loaded for what was previously small (gp relative) data -- which

I believe defaults to variables of 8 bytes or less (when -Gn is not

specified).

I guess mileage will vary depending on the application ;-)

Regads,

--Scott