xdata arrays of xdata ptrs sdcc 2.5.0 8051

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have found a weird quirk of sdcc. I am trying to cast some structured asm data into a c table.

typedef struct ss {
int a;
int b;
} mystruct;

xdata int c;
xdata mystruct d;

////// these two work.
xdata void * xdata ptest2[2] = { &c, &d };
xdata mystruct * xdata ptest[2] = { &d, &d };

///// this gets warnings- see below.
xdata mystruct * xdata ptest4[2] = { ( (xdata mystruct *) &c), &d };

///// this compiles correctly:
xdata void * xdata ptest4[2] = { ( (xdata void *) &c), &d };

So in the above C is random data I am trying to cast a pointer to in an external table of pointers to external data. It appears all generate
the correct code and tables.

Warnings from the line with warnings:

/build/toolchain/lin32/sdcc-2.5.0/bin/sdcc -o build/fx2DescriptorTestsMain.rel -c -I./build -I./firmware -I./firmware/fx2 -I./include -DBIGSTRINGS -Ifirmware/fx2/fx2DescriptorTests -DALLOCATE_REGISTERS firmware/fx2/fx2DescriptorTests/fx2DescriptorTestsMain.c
firmware/fx2/fx2DescriptorTests/fx2DescriptorTestsMain.c:67: warning 18: Initializer different levels of indirections
from type 'int xdata-xdata* '
to type 'struct ss xdata-xdata* '
firmware/fx2/fx2DescriptorTests/fx2DescriptorTestsMain.c:1074: warning 18: Initializer different levels of indirections
from type 'int xdata-xdata* '
to type 'struct ss xdata-xdata* '

It seems like there is a bug with the casting for SDCC?

Thanks for any enlightenment. Steve

[Maarten Brock]

Steve,

Please try again with SDCC 2.7.x.

Maarten

[Anonymous]

Hi Maarten,

I am near the end of a project using 2.5.0. We tried moving to 2.7.0 but could not get the build to work. It allocated many more function params to direct ram and ran out of space. So we stayed with 2.5.0. When I get some time I will try 2.7. again.

Can someone who is using 2.7 see if my posted code is still a problem?

Thanks, Steve

[Maarten Brock]

It looks like 2.7.4 behaves exactly the same way. The code looks fine though so you can ignore this warning.