arm-elf-gcc - disappearing module header

[Stephane Dalton]

> I'm trying to compitle a rommable image for the aeb1C.  The aeb1c has a
> bootloader that requires each rommable program to have a module header -
> which I have placed in a file called module.c.  This module header is
> simply a struct containing static information about the location of the
> code, name of module, etc. & is not referenced anywhere else in the
> program.  The problem is that this variable disappears when the program
> is compiled.  Maybe it gets eliminated because it's never referenced?  I
> don't think I have any optimizations turned on - will arm-elf-gcc simply
> do this on it's own?  Is there a way to turn it off?
	[Stephane Dalton]  Probably the variable didn't disapear but if it
must be at the beginning of you rommable image, you'll have to create a
section which is the first one referenced by your linker script, you'll have
to use the __attribute__ with the section parameter, for the linker script
you can refer to ld manual and for the __attribute__ the textinfo on gcc is
quite well written.

	Hope it will help a bit!


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