How to put part of program data into local ram, the rest into external memroy?

I did not understand which part of the above answer record your difficulty is with. Unless your data structures are an integral part of your main.c it should be fairly easy to move them to another file. Assigning an entire .o file or a section from a .o file to memory then becomes easy in the linker script. The linker script construct is described in the answer record as well as the GNU linker manual.

Apart from the method in the answer record above, you can use section attributes on your data structures to assign them to specific sections. For example,

int a[100] __attribute__((section(".mydatasection")));

Then in your linker script, create a new section assignment and assign it to the memory you want. You can do the same thing for functions. For example,

.bramdata:{

Refer to the GNU GCC docs on section attributes and the GNU linker script docs on section assignment to memory.

- Vasanth

Hi Vasanth,

Thank you very much for your input.

I will give it a try for the __attribute__((section())) approach. Another quick question regarding this __attribute__. Is it only legal to be used on global variables?

Cheers,

Yao