Lpc2000

Karl, much thanks for your detailed info.

> Your startup code should also have code to copy the initialization 
> values for .data from flash to RAM.

Ok, how do I do that for GCC?  Got any examples?  Can you point me 
towards the doc?

> If you write all the code of your program yourself, you may of 
course 
> skip the startup initialization so that all globals/statics are 
> indeterminate at startup.  But if you link in other code, such as 
> standard C library functions, you better be absolutely sure that 
the 
> indetermination of their statics/globals won't break anything.

Does GCC spit out its own C init code?  If so where is the doc on 
this or the examples so I can see how to link this in?
 
> If you are concerned with the speed of the startup initialization,

No I'm not.  I just want something that works!  All of the examples I 
find involve somebody else's syntax like IAR or ARM which will not 
work for GCC.  I'm trying to figure out what I need for GCC to work!

There is so much doc to wade through for this GNU stuff, and so few 
examples, this is a slow painful learning curve.  Some decent 
examples would be a big help.  I expected that there would be some 
with the GNUARM files, but I sure cannot find many.

More info from an expert like yourself would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,  Chris.