Re: [cc65] Chicken and Egg Problem (?)

From: Oliver Schmidt <ol.sc1web.de>
Date: 2009-08-21 09:45:00
Hi,

>> But now with the startup code living in the C/runtime library the
>> whole thing doesn't get started if main() lives in a library - at
>> least that's how things look to me.
>
> I don't know much about Contiki, but there must be something, the application
> must do to make use of it. How about adding a
>
>        .forceimport    _main
>
> somewhere in a library module that *must* be used by an application?

Thanks for the hint. However to me this looks like a workaround (or
even a hack) but not like a true solution.

From my perspective it seems reasonable to presume that the linker
together with the C/runtime library does "somehow make sure" that
main() is referred.

I understand that the linker fore sure isn't limited to C programs so
it doesn't make sense to hard-code such a reference but what about
i.e. extending the linker config syntax/functionality to allow
something analog to .forceimport (being kind of the "opposite" of
SYMBOL {}, maybe called IMPORT {}). The builtin linker configs could
then use that functionality for the symbol _main.

Best, Oliver
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