>-----Original Message-----
>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>Sent: 11 July 2005 19:28
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: RE: [PIC] Chaining ISRs with the linker
>
>
>On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 19:23 +0200, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>
>> Peter thought this was clever,
>
>Peter still thinks it is clever.
>
>> I (and I think some
>> others) thought it was a bad idea for various
>> reasons.
>
>>From what I remember (and I've not been back and reread the whole 
>>thread
>again) the main objection was that using only the 
>documentation you can't predict what MPLINK is going to do 
>when it links code for the same segment from different object 
>files.  On the other hand I'm happy to continue to use this 
>technique because I looked at the gplink source code to find 
>out exactly what it's going to do. 
>
>"Use the source, Luke"
>
>Peter


But of course no guarantees that this behaviour won't change in the future.  I have to agree with Jan-Erik on this, using an obscure/undocumented tooleset feature is nearly always a bad idea in the long run.

Regards

Mike

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