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Program Memory Constants
tom g
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 22nd July 2013 at
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I am using a Cortex-M0 with Keil uVision4. How are constants located in program memory and how can these program memory constants be changed by code?
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Scott Douglass
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 24th July 2013 at
http://forums.arm.com
What is it that you're trying to accomplish?
If they change then they are not really constants; if the code is running and you change the constants (say, from a debugger) then there's no guarantee that the code will still work. For example two functions might share part of a constant literal. It might be better to store the values in variables.
The compiler has various ways encoding constants. A constant might be part of an instruction, a piece of data in the same section as code or as a separate (read only) data section.
Changing a constant at runtime (once you've located it) might be simple if it's in RAM or tricky if it's in FLASH.
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Scott Douglass
over 12 years ago
Note: This was originally posted on 24th July 2013 at
http://forums.arm.com
What is it that you're trying to accomplish?
If they change then they are not really constants; if the code is running and you change the constants (say, from a debugger) then there's no guarantee that the code will still work. For example two functions might share part of a constant literal. It might be better to store the values in variables.
The compiler has various ways encoding constants. A constant might be part of an instruction, a piece of data in the same section as code or as a separate (read only) data section.
Changing a constant at runtime (once you've located it) might be simple if it's in RAM or tricky if it's in FLASH.
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