Re: [avr-chat] Strange struct problem

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 9 Dec 2005 16:07, Ian Caddy wrote:
> Your problem is that you need to also include your initialised data
> section in your hex file.  The initialised data will be copied to your
> data section by the startup code, but only if you include it in your hex
> file which you are not.
>
>  > avr-objcopy -j .text -O ihex testcase.elf testcase.hex
>
> You are only including the .text section.
>
> Because of this, the initilised data section is empty (0xFF) and these
> values are copied to the data section on startup.

Doh!

>  > avr-objcopy -O ihex testcase.elf testcase.hex
>
> should work for you as it will copy the sections that it thinks it
> should rather than you telling it to just use the .text section with the
> -j field.
>
> I hope this helps,

Ahah! Thanks!
Actually I had to do "-j .text -j .data -j .bss" and it worked otherwise 
avrdude complained about addresses being out of range.

*does the happy dance*

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