SYSV / EABI compliance

Sergei Organov osv at javad.ru
Tue Feb 18 10:49:15 UTC 2003


Till Straumann <strauman at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> writes:
[...]
> I solved this by declaring the bogus variable
> (only the address has a meaning) as an array of unknown
> size:
> 
> /* compiler doesn't know the size, hence access is
>   * through an absolute address
>   */
> extern int some_linker_defined_address[];
> ...
> yyy( (unsigned)some_linker_defined_address )
> 
> Does anyone have a better solution / suggestion?

I believe what you did is the best solution. At least I've seen it in
different places and used it myself ;-)

-- 
Sergei.




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