Hi,

IIRC (and it's been a while since I've done this) you set up a new
section in the linker script as large as you would like. You then use
a pragma directive in the C code to put your large array into that new
huge linker section. C18 will handle the rest.

Regards,
Brendan

On 24 July 2012 19:17, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com> wr=
ote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm loooking at starting up my first 16F1xxx project.
> It will be the 16F1938 (on the "PICkit 28-pin demo board").
>
> Now, these PICs has something called "linear memory" where
> GPR from the (up to) 32 banks are combined into one linear
> area without holes or jumps. Fine so far. But how do I "use"
> this area? I know of the usual UDATA and UDATA_SHR but I
> expected something like UDATA_LIN to specificaly allocate
> memory from that area.
>
> Normal UDATA allocation will not cross banks, right?
>
> Maybe using UDATA together with a hardcoded adress in the
> linear area ? But that defeets the automatic allocation.
>
> Anyone who has used this memory area for (e.g.) buffers
> larger then one single bank?
>
> Jan-Erik.
>
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