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[termiflyer]

Does anyone have any recommendations (books, links to class web pages,
etc) for straight-forward learning about everything in between C
programming and assembler? I know C fairly well, and I know assembler
fairly well (as far as using the instruction set to get things done).
What I'm short on is the in between parts: position independent code,
relocation, different sections (SDA, BSS, etc), placing them in flash,
relocating to RAM, how to manipulate all these i C and/or assembly to
get the code to do what you want.

Thanks!!

[Dale]

"termiflyer" <dp*****@earthlink.net> wrote in news:1128697810.153693.143770
@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com:

Does anyone have any recommendations (books, links to class web pages,
etc) for straight-forward learning about everything in between C
programming and assembler? I know C fairly well, and I know assembler
fairly well (as far as using the instruction set to get things done).
What I'm short on is the in between parts: position independent code,
relocation, different sections (SDA, BSS, etc), placing them in flash,
relocating to RAM, how to manipulate all these i C and/or assembly to
get the code to do what you want.

The back end of the compiler and the linker do all that, so maybe somebody
in a compiler group will give a fuck.

[Thad Smith]

termiflyer wrote:

Does anyone have any recommendations (books, links to class web pages,
etc) for straight-forward learning about everything in between C
programming and assembler? I know C fairly well, and I know assembler
fairly well (as far as using the instruction set to get things done).
What I'm short on is the in between parts: position independent code,
relocation, different sections (SDA, BSS, etc), placing them in flash,
relocating to RAM, how to manipulate all these i C and/or assembly to
get the code to do what you want.

This is off-topic in comp.lang.c. If you are considering placing code
in flash, you might want to visit comp.arch.embedded.

As far as segments and relocation, I suggest reading the documentation
for the linker that you are interested in.

Thad

[Mabden]

"Thad Smith" <Th*******@acm.org> wrote in message
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termiflyer wrote:

Does anyone have any recommendations (books, links to class web pages, etc) for straight-forward learning about everything in between C
programming and assembler? I know C fairly well, and I know assembler fairly well (as far as using the instruction set to get things done). What I'm short on is the in between parts: position independent code, relocation, different sections (SDA, BSS, etc), placing them in flash, relocating to RAM, how to manipulate all these i C and/or assembly to get the code to do what you want.

This is off-topic in comp.lang.c. If you are considering placing code
in flash, you might want to visit comp.arch.embedded.

As far as segments and relocation, I suggest reading the documentation
for the linker that you are interested in.

Also, find a newsgroup for the hardware you are interested in.

--
Mabden

[S.Tobias]

In comp.lang.c termiflyer <dp*****@earthlink.net> wrote:

Does anyone have any recommendations (books, links to class web pages,
etc) for straight-forward learning about everything in between C
programming and assembler? I know C fairly well, and I know assembler
fairly well (as far as using the instruction set to get things done).
What I'm short on is the in between parts: position independent code,
relocation, different sections (SDA, BSS, etc), placing them in flash,
relocating to RAM, how to manipulate all these i C and/or assembly to
get the code to do what you want.

I'm not an expert in the field and I can't give you much advice,
but I think this might be a good overview:
http://www.iecc.com/linker/

You might also find some papers by Ulrich Drepper interesting.

comp.programming is probably a good place to ask this kind
of questions, too. It's definitely OT in c.l.c.

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Stan Tobias
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