SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 06:53:36 GMT

That is good to hear. It will be interesting to see how you solved it.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Adrian Eggenberger — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 04:47:23 GMT

I've found a solution for the visual compiler. On the first view it looks good, but up to now i couldn't test it a lot. I'll update the issue after more tests.

Update 20.06.2016: The solution was working in some architectures. On other systems the placement was different and it didn't work there. So at the end I gave up... If anyone has a good idea how to realize the section vars on visual compiler I'd love to here more about it.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Adrian Eggenberger — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 13:15:16 GMT

Thanks the link now works... The comments look not very promising at all. I'll do some tests and see what I can do.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Adrian Eggenberger — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:12:14 GMT

I'll look at the GCC version. Your link diesn't work... :-(

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:00:01 GMT

It should be possible to implement this for Visual Studio as well, thought we have not done it. Maybe you can look at how it is done for GCC attempt to adapt it. This thread on stack overflow seems to be relevant. Edit: updated link.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Adrian Eggenberger — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 13:28:43 GMT

After reading a few pages discussing the sections in Visual Stidio i came to the conclusion that t hey are not directly comparable the sections in IAR, Keil and GCC. The biggest problems seams to be that the size of a section is not available. At the moment i've no idea how to implement this on visual studio compiler :-(.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

awneil — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 16:26:30 GMT

This appears in the forum sidebar: "Developing Nordic nRF51822 Beacon Kit Firmware with Visual Studio"

Does it help...?

Edit: Ah: it's using GCC - so probably not. :-(

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Adrian Eggenberger — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:38:20 GMT

I've described our concept of using the SDK to simulate our target on Windows environments by using a connectivity dongle here: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

This is why we are bound to visual studio compiler and can't switch to GCC here. The complete environment uses Visual Studio and the integrated C#/WPF support.

RE: SDK10 feature "Section variables" with Microsoft compiler

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:24:52 GMT

There are no plans for supporting other compilers that I am aware of.

Are you using part of the SDK for testing your cod on a computer, mocking code that is tied to hardware etc? In such case I guess you would probably have more luck using GCC.

It should be possible to add support for other compilers in components/libraries/experimental_section_vars/section_vars.h. Maybe some other contributes on this forum has experience with sections in Visual Studio?