In message SNHBXT98B63SQ98BA765YIC51A95Z52.42c3a90c@pc-block you wrote:
Well, I'm sorry. I didn't want to sound rude. I was a bit dissappointed, because it seemed to me like you were ignoring great parts of my last post and sort of retreated to safer grounds.
I accept ypour aplogy. I just have a habit of NOT trying to address the problem the same way and following the same thoughs - if I did this, O probably ended up with the same conclusions like you and no solution at all. Instead, I try to remember that There Is More Than One Way To Do Things.
That's why I ask for information that my seem irrelevant to you, or that I seem to ignore information you provided while I'm trying to go a different way.
Perhaps you could explain to me, how you think I could initialize the declared array at those positions you propose (it's not a problem of finding the referenced functions, but of knowing how to do it). I've sent a small example as answer to Rune Torgersen, which shows quite well, that one can't initialize/locate an "open" array (like fpgadata []) by initializing a pointer of the same name. Seemingly it's me, who's failing to see, but I don't get how your hint helps me with this.
See my previous posting.
Well, at first, you cut away three quarters of my last post. Second, you told me in one of your answers, that the compiler knows no differences between these initializations
Yes, I was wrong there. I stand corrected.
I'm afraid, I currently don't have the knowledge, nor the time (at least not at work) to do it in a better way. But I thought, perhaps you would like to at least discuss the way it's done now and perhaps, combined with your knowledge of how the things are running today, come to see a new/better/more generic way of doing it. But please don't get me wrong again, I certainly don't want to sound like I'm requesting a change in U- Boot or something alike.
I'm not that intimate with the linker or the changes they implement to it - which seem to break existing and seemingly perfectly good code that used to work for a long time. I'm afraid there is little help available - if there was a linker expert here on the list with some clever ideas he would have probably spoken up by now.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk