You had me all excited, thinking that you had a solution for me. Turns out
it
compresses that just as much. This can easily be tested by grep 2006
program.prc
It doesn't find it.
Chris Bruner
Compulife Software Inc.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Combee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Fixed string in code.
At 12:21 PM 1/12/2006, Chris Bruner Compulife wrote:
I'm needing to make a fixed string of sometag __DATE__ and __TIME__ in the
code such that it doesn't get mangled/compressed/packed during link. (The
program will be
scanned to find compile timestamps to keep our software in sync with
updates).
I'm finding that the sometag is there but the date and time are only
partly
there. (It looks like it was packed)
Does anyone know a way of specifying that the text must not be packed?
If you use it as a constant string in code, it should not be compressed.
Just make a routine called
const char *GetTimeDate(void)
{
return __DATE__ " " __TIME__;
}
That's because const strings referenced from code get stored in the clear
in the code section, but global strings are stored in the compressed data
resource that's expanded at runtime.
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Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau Chief
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