[Sdcc-user] Multiple declaration of strings

[Jan V. B. <jan...@ad...>]

Hello all,

     I've encountered the following problem when defining some text-strings in 
a library (*.h) file.

I declare them as:

#ifndef _STRINGS_H_
#define _STRINGS_H_

code unsigned char string[] = "some piece of text";

xdata unsigned char string2[] = "another piece of text";

#endif // _STRINGS_H_

After compiling and loading it into my microcontroller, I see that they are 
declared at the start and end of my code (when browsing codespace). Why is 
that? How can I avoid this waste of codespace?

When I declare them into the sourcefile directly, they are only declared once, 
but some of them I need in multiple sourcefiles.
Sometimes the compiler gives a warning about it (declaring these things 
twice), sometimes (mostly?) not.

Greetings,

      Jan

Jan Van Belle

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