Placing Functions in Data Segment

[David Williams <davidwilliams@ozemail.com.au>]

Hi all,

I am using ECGS 1.1.1 for 68K (provided by Object Software) and have a need 
to place a small number of functions into the data segment. The reason 
being that these functions do programming of flash memory so they cannot 
run from flash. The data segment is copied from Flash to RAM during the 
startup process so this is a very convenient way of getting the code from 
Flash to RAM.

Currently I have compiled my C code to assembler and then modified the 
assembler file directly to place the functions into the data segment. This 
is a bit of a maintenance hassle and I would prefer some way of using the C 
file directly. Is there a pragma or some other special keyword, linker 
option, anything at all that would allow me to instruct the compiler to 
place these functions into the data segment.

Alternately is there a better way to run my code from RAM. It would have to 
be good though because this method seems quite effective to me.

TIA
David Williams
DLC Software P/L
davidwilliams@ozemail.com.au

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