"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > It might be worth changing the suggested usage to "-Wl,-T,text_64k", > which would more reliably warn idiots who (mis)use it at compile-time, > but the advantage is offset by the probability of said idiot mistyping > all that punctuation and posting questions about that instead :-).
OK, now that you've had your fun (which is somewhat deserved), hopefully you are willling to help me actually figure out WHY this does nothing for me. I started out in the beginning using it in the link phase and it did nothing. I tried -t, -T, linker, compiler, EVERYTHING. Nothing works. I am trying to add a 4K library to my primary code segment. That's it. It won't fit in the default 32K segment but doubling that is WAY more than enough so that's what I want/need to do. And yet when I do exactly what you have so derisively described, it makes no difference. Not only that, the linker/compiler NEVER give any errors at all. As I said before, I can do "-t garbage", "-T garbage" and get nothing to let me know that it is even there. So I have no feedback as to where I might be off track. All I know is I am desperate to get this in and I can't do it and there doesn't seem to be any example anywhere online of this in use. Armed with the map file I can see that indeed, it is now (and actually probably was in the beginning) creating a large(r) coderes segment as evidenced by these 2 differences: coderes 0x00000000 0x00008002 coderes 0x00000000 0x0000fcd0 The reason I assumed it *wasn't* working was because I get the classic "coderes is full" error when linking in the FourKLib library. The library itself is actually 23080 bytes but the author told me that this gets trimmed by the linker (for my type of use) to about 4K (I am only using 3 functions out of the 40 or so). So the REAL problem I am having is that the compiler is including ALL the library instead of just the pieces I am actually referencing/using. Perhaps I have settings of the linker so that it is not properly discarding unused library code? Evidently what the linker does is allocate space for ALL the functions in an included library FIRST and then strips out the actual code after the fact. Therefore I need to be able to fit the entire 23+K into the codres even though only 4K or so will end up there. So the questions I now have are: 1) Is there a way to specify which functions in a library go into which segments (remember, all I have is the .h and .a file; it isn't my library)? If I modify the .h file with the SECTION_X postfix, will that work? This would seem like my best bet. 2) Is there way to force the compiler to evaluate which functions are actually used BEFORE it stakes out space for them in the codres so that it will not consider unused ones? -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
