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Re: How to create a new platform?

Jesper Skov wrote:
> Grant> Do you prefer the "declare a pointer and then type-cast a
> Grant> hard-wired constant value" method?
> 
> Grant>    const UartType Uart0Ptr = (UartType*) 0x3604000;
> 
> This is the method I'm familiar with. But I'm just a dumb kid :)

If this is actually a define, ie. #define UARTBASE ((UartType *)0x3604000)
then it would be very bad if gcc could not optimize "UARTBASE->foo" to be a
direct access to a single memory address, rather than having to do the
addition.

I'm not sure I could guarantee that for "const"s though.

Jifl
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