Re: Problem with gplink/gpasm and UDATA

On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 10:18 +0100, A.J. Green,PEM wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Here at Cambridge University Engineering Department we are big users of 
> open-source software.  As such I am looking at setting up a PIC 
> development environment using anjuta, gputils and sdcc.
> 
> At the moment I am struggling with gplink & gpasm.  I can't seem to get 
> gplink to link any object file that was compiled from an asm file with a 
> non-absolute UDATA section.  If I include an absolute memory location 
> (as in sec_name UDATA 0x20 instead of just sec-name UDATA) then 
> everything works fine.
> 
> I expect I am missing some fundamental point but I cannot for the life 
> of me work out why this doesn't work as I am fairly sure that the 
> location part is optional.

See the thread "[gnupic] Relocatable code on 16F870" which was about the
same issue.

Peter