Re: [sdcc-devel] [ sdcc-Bugs-454266 ] Bizarre (?) code generation

[Russel W. <ru...@ru...>]

> I can think of an initialized part of data/xdata that is memcpy-ed from cseg
> during startup...

This proposal of using code segment to store initialized data and then
move it to external memory has been mentioned before in a similar but
dissimilar context by others.  It seems strange to me to have to have
the data in twice and moreover have to suffer the problem of copying it
as an initialization!

Again could be my ignorance of E^2 / ROM / RAM devices but it seems to
me that there needs to be a way of saying that different parts of the
external memory are ROM and different parts E^2, etc.  The ihx file then
contains all the right information to do the blowing of the system. This
is particularly true when dealing with flash silicon.

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