From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
To: chris@lslsun.epfl.ch (Christian Iseli)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Named bss sections
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 07:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21940.873730703@hurl.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199709081205.OAA28412@lslsun17.epfl.ch>
In message < 199709081205.OAA28412@lslsun17.epfl.ch >you write:
> When you work with embedded targets,
[ ... ]
Yup. No doubt I deal with this regularly.
> GCC has provision to put global and static variables in user
> specified sections using the section attribute, and though it
> says in the manual that it should only be used for initialized
> variables, I see no hard reason for this restriction.
Agreed in principle.
> Basically, I want to be able to specify a section for any variable,
> not only initialized ones. For example, if a variable represents
> some input port mapped in RAM, it would be wrong to have to initialize
> it to some value.
I'll ask my question another way :-) Show me a variable declaration that
specifies a specific section, but doesn't end up where it belongs and is
fixed by your patch.
jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-09-08 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-09-08 6:50 Christian Iseli
1997-09-08 7:58 ` Jeffrey A Law [this message]
1997-09-08 10:32 ` Martin Mares
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1997-09-09 4:15 Christian Iseli
1997-09-02 7:15 Christian Iseli
1997-09-02 9:18 ` Gavin Koch
1997-09-04 22:30 ` Jeffrey A Law
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