BL51: USING WILDCARDS IN SEGMENT NAMES

Information in this article applies to:

• C51 Version 6.01

QUESTION

Is there a way to use wildcards in the CODE and XDATA directives in the BL51 linker?

ANSWER

Yes. In C51 V6.01, wildcard support was added to BL51 for the segment location directives (CODE, XDATA, DATA, and so on). For example:

In the µVision IDE, go to Project -> 'Options for Target' -> 'BL51 Misc', and in the 'Misc controls' section, enter:

CODE (?pr?*?myfile (0x100))

Or if using a make file, enter this command:

BL51 myfile.obj CODE (?pr?*?myfile (0x100))

These commands locate all program segments (functions) found in the myfile.obj OMF file starting at address 0100h.

SEE ALSO

• C51: VERSION 6 RELEASE NOTES
• BL51: LOCATING FUNCTIONS AT ASCENDING ADDRESSES
• BL51: LOCATING GROUPS OF CODE SEGMENTS TOGETHER
• C51: STARTING A FUNCTION AT A SPECIFIC ADDRESS
• C51: LOCATING OBJECT FILES AT SPECIFIC STARTING ADDRESSES

FORUM THREADS

The following Discussion Forum threads may provide information related to this topic.

• LINKER ERROR
• using OVERLAY with wildcards...

Last Reviewed: Wednesday, November 17, 2004