Hi, I have downloaded latest GCC and Binutils sources from FSF for M16C port. Using these sources, I could successfully build the cross toolchain i.e. m32c-elf-*. However, I am facing a problem while accessing the "const" data and hard-coded strings which by default get placed in section ".rodata". Note that, for the M16C-62P target which I am using, ROM memory region starts at memory location "0x000A0000" (i.e. 20 bit address). Therefore, as the pointer size for GCC M16C is two bytes, it fails to access this memory region. I have further noticed that, ".plt" section is used for handling the "function pointers" and ".rodata" section (both are 20 bit addressable). However, for this to work on actual hardware, I had to copy the ".plt" section from ROM (load address) to RAM at runtime. I am doing this in my own start-up code. After doing the above changes, I could get my function pointer working with actual hardware. But, this does not solve my problem for accessing constant data and strings placed in ROM. As a workaround, I am currently copying the complete ".rodata" section from load address (ROM) to RAM, that is by treating it similar to ".data" section. However, this is not the expected behavior, especially when using hardware. My ".rodata" should be in ROM all the time. I have noticed that, ".plt" stores a pointer to start of ".rodata" section. I would like to know, how it can be used without actually copying the ".rodata" section to RAM. Thanks in advance. Regards, Prafulla Thakare KPIT Cummins InfoSystems Ltd. Pune, India ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Free download of GNU based tool-chains for Renesas' SH and H8 Series. The following site also offers free technical support to its users. Visit http://www.kpitgnutools.com for details. Latest versions of KPIT GNU tools were released on October 12, 2005. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
