In geneal this is my bad coding :)

...fixed.

please recompile gcc.

~d



On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 10:48:37 +0930
[email protected] wrote:

> Greetings all,
> 
> I have interesting problem...
> Yesterday I ran very low on stack and found that I was using much more
> memory than I expected.
> 
> Each file in my project declares variables as follows:
> 
> static unsigned char MY_variable;
> 
> What I found in the output of msp430-nm and msp430-objdump was that
> MY_variable was allocated to an even address and consumed 2 bytes of RAM.
> 
> When I remove static, which is there to protect it from other modules
> getting at it with "extern" as follows:
> unsigned char MY_variable;
> 
> I found that the variable was allocated only a single byte of RAM and
> allocated to an odd or even address.
> 
> Why is this the case?
> Are there more effects of this static usage than simply scoping?
> Does this apply to all gcc ports, not just msp430?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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