Hello,
I have two separate questions: 1) I was wondering whether the Keil C51 compiler can generate Position Independent Code. Perhaps, if I build a program as a library, would the generated object code be position independent? By PIC, I mean that all jumps would be Program Counter-relative rather than absolute.
2) Can the C51 generate OMF51 Object code rather than Absolute OMF51 object code? If I write a program with unresolved external references, would the linker abort as soon as it realizes that these references cannot be linked or would it resolve as much as it can and generate object code with 'dangling' unresolved symbols? If so, would the OMF51 file list these unresolved symbols such that a dynamic loader can patch them at runtime?
Thanks, Umar
If dynamic loading of program modules is important for the application, maybe it's time to look at the ARM7. The ARM architecture does PIC nicely.
Now that wouldn't be fun now would it? :)
Thanks all for the inputs.