Re: [avr-gcc-list] Allocating variables to a fixed address

[David Kelly]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 08:21:37AM -0600, Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > > Sounds to me as if you are making the "bootloader" too big and
> > > should simply link an entire application for every possible 
> > > target. What you are doing would make more sense if the loadable
> > > modules could run out of RAM.
> > That would be no use, the loadables must be non-volatile. This is a
> > tester that will be sent to a factory (somewhere). When a new
> > product is to be tested, I can e-mail them the test routine which
> > they then burn into flash (each of these is 0x900 bytes, there can
> > be up to 0x0a of them).
> 
> Why is this method superior to having a regular bootloader, and you
> have N applications, where each application is the individual test
> routine and the common portion? Why do you have create this custom
> interface which has its own set of problems? Alternatively, creating a
> custom Makefile to handle building 10 different applications is
> certainly easier in comparison.

I agree, thats how I would handle it. Either build a custom linked
application for each customer or provide the customer with the tools to
build one of their own. What he is trying to do is in effect create a
run time program linker.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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