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Re: Define constants in CODE (ROM) area.

Gary Thomas wrote:
> 
> If these are truly constant, the "const" qualifier should make this
> happen.  For example,
>   const int abc = 345;
> will put that data into the ".rodata" section.  You can adjust the
> linker script to put this into the TEXT section.  Note: we normally
> put read-only data into the DATA section, so you would have to make
> some changes for this to work completely.

Are you sure? I did a grep, and for ROM startups, rodata was in ROM only on
two non-public platforms. Still I'll follow up internally on those two.
 
Jifl
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