[U-Boot-Users] Does u-boot relocate absolute symbols?

[Jerry Van Baren]

Andreas Block wrote:
> 29.06.2005 17:46:03, "Rune Torgersen" <runet at innovsys.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I just have to comment on this.
>>
>>
>>>It does not work (because it's simply wrong) to declare 
>>>fpgadata as follows in pf5200.c 
>>>(although looking good in the first place, if you think about 
>>>it, the compiler needs to 
>>>handle both declarations differently):
>>>
>>>const unsigned char *fpgadata = 0x400000; /* (with 0x400000 
>>>being the address to store 
>>>the image with TFTP at) */
>>>
>>
>>Have you tried to do this?
>>Because it should work (even if one is declared char [] and the other
>>char *)
> 
> 
> Sure, I've tried this. This is the point, where my problem arose. Attached you find two 
> small files, you can easily compile under linux (gcc -o arrtest -I ./ ./common.c 
> ./array.c). The file "common.c" represents the code I can't (don't want to) touch. 
> "array.c" represents my project dependent code. If you run arrtest it will show to you, 
> that it is not possible to initialize the array "test" in this manner. After looking at 
> the disassembly, it is pretty clear, that the compiler has to generate different code 
> for the two notations.
> 
> Nevertheless, thanks for your hint,
> Andreas Block

I assume this was a typo and not in your actual test program?

--- common.c-original	2005-06-30 08:03:26.286019864 -0400
+++ common.c	2005-06-30 08:03:48.815779191 -0400
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@

  int showwrong(void)
  {
-	printf("test[]: 0x%08X\n");
+	printf("test[]: 0x%08X\n", (int)test);
  	return 0;
  }

gvb