Where should the DAT section be?

william chan

Should the DAT section preferably be before the SPIN code or at the end of all the SPIN codes?

I am afraid that if I declare a DAT section with strings above the VAR section like

strName     BYTE "Hello",0

the variables in the VAR section (that is placed after the DAT section) may no longer be aligned by LONG.

That means that if I do a

eeprom.WriteLong(eeprom#bootpin,eeprom#eeprom, @mylongnum,mylongnum)

it may hit a page boundary and cause problems b'cos the address of the variable mylongnum is no longer aligned by long.

What you guys think?

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BradC

The compiler takes care of all of it for you.
You can pretty much put anything anywhere and it will sort it out.

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Phil Pilgrim (PhiPi)

The compiler makes sure that things that are declared as long get aligned as long. You don't need to worry about it. Put your DAT section anywhere you want.

-Phil

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hippy

It depends on what else is in the code. If the data isn't long aligned then there will be problems using it as if it were long aligned no matter where it's placed.

Put a "long" in front if you're not sure ...

            LONG
strName     BYTE "Hello",0