Re: [cc65] Segments

From: Greg King (gngking_at_erols.com)
Date: 2002-10-19 19:46:03

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-----Original Message-----
From: Ullrich von Bassewitz
Date: Thursday, October 17, 2002 05:24 AM

> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 02:39:37PM -0700, Shawn Jefferson wrote:
> > What exactly goes into these segments:
> >
> > DATA
>
> Initialized data.
>
> > RODATA
>
> Initialized constant-data, string-literals, jump-tables, and similar stuff.
>
> > BSS
>
> Uninitialized data.
>
> > Also, if I malloc() some memory, what segment does this come from?
>
> From BSS.

Actually, it comes from a place called the heap.  The heap is all of the memory
that sits between the BSS segment and the stack.  The start-up code puts the
stack at the top of the memory that is used by cc65 (which usually
is the memory-area that is named RAM in ld65's configure-scripts).

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