David Farrell wrote:
> I know this is WinARM, but I am using linux with to
> compile Martin's excellent examples (thanks) with some
> minor annoyances like include filename lower/upper case
> issues. Would you (Martin) be willing to patch files
> to fix these or would you prefer to leace things as
> they are. I would be willing to provide patch files and
> linux testing.

Don't worry about the "WinARM" in the forum-name. WinARM is just a
collection with the GNU arm-elf toolchain as main component so you are
"on topic" here. ( http://en.mikrocontroller.net/topic/57448#new )

Please send your patches to mthomas(at)rhrk(dot)uni-kl(dot)de. I have
tried to take care about the upper/lowercase but obviously not
everywhere.

> Also, my personal annoyance is having memory space defined
> in multiple locations. I prefer that the linker script define
> exact locations and C and ASM to use globals defined
> in the linker script to reference the memory boundaries as
> needed.
>
> __STACKLOC = ORIGIN(STACK) + LENGTH(STACK);
>
> Is there some issue with WinARM that precludes this?

No, IRC there is at least one example in the "collection" where I have
used ORIGIN and LENGTH. But I think these functions are rather new and
not available in older version of the binutils-ld (or at least they have
been new for me until some weeks ago). Anyway, if you have already
patched sources just send patch-files. I will try to include your
improvements.

> I am also building the includes and scripts for LPC288X and
> the ARM9 side of TI Davinci and would be willing to submit
> your examples as ported to these with GCC.

Examples are alway welcome esp. for targets for which there are
currently no examples. Just send my your code and I will include it in
the WinARM example-collection of the next release and place them on the
"WinARM-pages". Please place your name in the source-files to mark it as
your work.

Regards,
Martin Thomas