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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:16:00 -0000
From: shreyas krishnan <shreyas76@gmail.com>
Reply-To: shreyas76@gmail.com
To: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Address assignment
Cc: dave.korn@artimi.com, binutils@sources.redhat.com
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Thanks Delorie, your solutions works. I just need to follow the
lcomm/comm/any other
directive with the address assignment. I wasnt  aware you could do
some thing like that hence my confusion.  But what can you do to place
functions, can such an assigment be used again? I found some other
directives like .org but that seems to advance the pointer for ever, I
only want to be able to change the address for some functions.

regards
shrey=20


On 9/14/05, DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> wrote:
>=20
> >   Ah, you're using a compiler rather than writing assembly?
>=20
> You use the compiler to define the structure, and assembly to place
> it.
>=20
> > >>         .global _my_struct
> > >> _my_struct =3D 0xa0001028
> >
> > you'd want to use a pointer variable:
> >
> > struct my_struct_type * const my_struct =3D (struct my_struct_type
> > *)0xa0001028;
>=20
> Why add an unneeded level of indirection?  Especially on time-critical
> embedded systems?
>