Re: [avr-gcc-list] Elf - coff volatile

[E. Weddington]

On 4 Nov 2002 at 12:31, Daniel Williamson wrote:

> If I declare a variable as volatile on a Mega 128 I get the following
> elf-coff error. c:/avrgcc/bin/avr-gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wa,-ahlms=main.ls t  -mmcu=atmega128 -I. main.c
> -o main.o c:/avrgcc/bin/avr-gcc  uart.o RS232.o DCmotor.o timer.o 
> error.o ain.o    -Wl,-Map=5003.map,--cref -mmcu=atmega128 -o 5003.elf
> c:/avrgcc/bin/avr-objcopy -O avrobj -R .eeprom 5003.elf 5003.obj
> c:/avrgcc/bin/avr-objcopy -O ihex      -R .eeprom 5003.elf 5003.hex
> c:/avrgcc/bin/elfcoff 5003.elf c:/avrgcc/bin/coff 5003.cof 5003.sym
>  : 826
>   : 678
>    : 563
>     : 387
> Error on parsing symbol      669 -> Type : 204x Desc :
> enc_cnt:G(1,3)=B(0,1) Ended
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The variable is declared as follows .
> volatile int  enc_cnt;
> 
> I do have volatile chars that seem to work ok but I don't see why this
> causes a problem.
> 
> I'm using the latest windows release from avrfreaks, I never saw this
> problem with the same software when using the previous release from
> avr freaks.
> 
> I'm also using avr studio 3.53.
> 
> The code works fine on the target board and it's just the simulation
> that I'm missing.
> 
> Any suggestions anyone?
> 
> Thanks Dan.
> 

There are a number of problems with elfcoff. Search the GCC forum on 
AVRFreaks about problems with elfcoff. There is a recent patch as 
well as someone is re-writing the tool to fix various bugs with 
elfcoff.

Someone has asked on this list if anyone has ever before worked on 
binutils to produce a COFF output file for AVR, but there has been no 
response.

Eric
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