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deimos · 12 October 2019, 16:24

I don't believe you can because the elf format has no concept of chip ram. At the moment I'm just using a CopyToChipMem function that allocates chip memory and copies data over. Not ideal. I think the only way round this would be to rework the link step so that your chip memory data can be done as amiga hunks, possibly from assembler, but I'm not sure it's possible without losing too many of the advantages this environment gives. There's another thread that talks about possible approaches somewhere. I've just decided to not worry about it until I have too much chip memory data to hold two copies of.

12 October 2019, 16:24	#39
deimos It's coming back! Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: comp.sys.amiga Posts: 762	I don't believe you can because the elf format has no concept of chip ram. At the moment I'm just using a CopyToChipMem function that allocates chip memory and copies data over. Not ideal. I think the only way round this would be to rework the link step so that your chip memory data can be done as amiga hunks, possibly from assembler, but I'm not sure it's possible without losing too many of the advantages this environment gives. There's another thread that talks about possible approaches somewhere. I've just decided to not worry about it until I have too much chip memory data to hold two copies of.