Lpc2000

Tom Walsh wrote:

>Michel Kuenemann wrote:
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>>Dear LPC2000 Group,
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>>I am using the KEIL IDE for ARM7 processors with the GNU Cygnus compiler on
>>a LPC2106 target. My
>>problem is that I cannot find in the documentation how to tell the compiler
>>to locate an object at a specified place (somwhere in flash memory, for
>>instance).
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>That would be the linker that would do the physical location of things.
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>Compilers build relocatable objects, linkers place those into regions 
>that you specify in the linker file (script).
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Go here: http://www.openhardware.net

Then under "Documents Lib" select "Absolute Linking with gcc".  In that 
document, look at page 5 to see how things get hardcoded to an absolute 
address.  The document is rather old, I wrote it a number of years ago, 
however, it is still pertinent to what we do today with the linker.

TomW


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