Lpc2000

Guillermo Prandi wrote:

>Excellent walkthrough, Tom!
>
>I don't get why you're recommending this:
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>>>in the linker script, place a new section AFTER the bss.
>>>You want to avoid placing this in front of "__bss_end__ = . ;"!
>>>      
>>>
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>I would have put it *before*, and I can't think of a reason not to do 
>so (not that putting it after would be harmful).
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Your choice, I just added it after.  Consideration is this, I am using 
newlib stubs and the sbrk() function references the first free memory 
from the "end" or "_end" location specified in the linker script.  Thus, 
the new section is "protected" from being part of the heap.

TomW




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