Lpc2000

At 11:33 PM 4/22/05 +0200, Anton Erasmus wrote:
>On 22 Apr 2005 at 15:07, Robert Adsett wrote:

<much snipped>

> > OK, I'll bite.  Why would you copy the .rodata section to RAM?  I
> > haven't seen any need to.  From one of my linker files
>Sorry, an artifact from working with the AVR. There the .rodata section is 
>handled the
>same as the .data section. The variables are placed in RAM and their 
>initial value
>copied from flash memory by the startup code. Of course the ARM does not
>need this and the .rodata section can be kept in flash.

That makes sense.  After a while all the different architectures do tend to 
blur.

Robert

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