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Re: Using linker directives to conditionally choose code


Hi there,

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Nicholas Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
>> I could easily accomplish this by defining strong symbols for all of
>> the interrupt handlers, but that would eat up a bunch of flash space
>> for interrupts I don't use.  What I would like instead is to use the
>> default handler for all interrupts, *unless* someone called
>> register_isr{1,2}_cb(), at which point it would switch to the strong
>> ISR_Handler() symbol for just that interrupt.
>
>
> Have you tried using symbol aliases and archives ?  Eg something like:
>
>
>   % cat isr1.c
>
>   void register_isr1_cb (void (*cb)(void)) { ... }
>
>   void (*isr1_handler)(void) __attribute__((alias ("ISR_Handler")));
>
>
>   % cat isr2.c
>
>   void register_isr2_cb (void (*cb)(void)) { ... }
>
>   void (*isr2_handler)(void) __attribute__((alias ("ISR_Handler")));
>
>
>   % gcc -c isr1.c isr2.c
>   % ar cr libisr.a isr1.o isr2.o
>
>   % cat foo.c
>
>   int global = 0'
>   void bar (void) { global = 1; }
>   void (main) { register_isr1_cb (bar); ... }
>
>   % gcc foo.c libisr.a
>
>
> So that when register_isr1_cb() is pulled into the application from libisr.a
> the (strong) definition of isr1_handler is also brought in.
> This  overrides the weak default definition of isr1_handler and results in
> ISR_Handler being called directly.  Since register_isr2_cb is not called
> however the strong version of isr2_handler is not pulled out of libisr.a and
> so the weak, default handler is used instead.

Thanks for the response and the idea.  I'll have to think about this
one a little more tomorrow and do some experimentation.

Thanks again,
Chris


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