Don't have a clue what's the problem, but others might find it helpful
if we know exactly what the compiler said.  A copy & paste of the
entire output might be helpful

On 5/6/05, Harold Hallikainen <harold@hallikainen.com> wrote:
> I have an array of structures in ROM. I want a pointer in RAM to point to
> that. The C manual that comes with MCC18 is a bit unclear on how to do
> this. My array in ROM is defined as:
> 
> struct SongChord
>   {
>           unsigned char beats;
>           unsigned int chord;
>         };
> 
> #pragma romdata song1=0xe000
> 
> struct SongChord rom const Song1Array[]={
>  data goes here }
> 
> I'm trying to define a pointer that points to it. Thus far, I define the
> pointer like this:
> 
>   struct SongChord rom const *SongArray;  // local pointer to a song
> 
> I'm trying to initialize the pointer with this:
> 
>               SongArray=&Song1Array;
> 
> and getting complaints from the compiler.
> 
> My goal is to have SongArray be a pointer in RAM that points to the array
> in ROM so I can do something like this:
> 
> NumBeats=SongArray[3].beats;
> 
> Pointers in C have always been tricky to me. Mixing RAM and ROM makes it
> worse!
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Harold
> 
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