"GB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:76135@palm-dev-forum... > > Thanks for the response. Yes I have the pcrelconstdata pragma > on, and that helped somewhat, but the problem is that the array > length is variable, so I didn't want to chew up a bunch of space > by predefining the array length for the longest one, ... so I > included a pointer to an array instead. > > It seems to me that I can do this with just about every other > compiler/architecture I have run across (I'm from the embedded > world where const allows me to build structures in ROM).
On embedded systems, your applications tend to be located at a specific address in memory. On Palm OS, your code is in a resource which can be moved through memory by the operating system, and is not locked down to one location until it is executed. When its locked, it doesn't have an opportunity to change the code, since the read-only section isn't being copied to another buffer, its being executed in place. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
