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Hello guys I was reading a C source and I found a notation like this:
__no_init __root extern volatile unsigned char var[10] @ 0x4000000;
But I’ve no idea what that __no_init __root means, is it standard C?
Thank you.
These are C language extensions used in some compilers targeting embedded systems (for example, IAR’s AVR compiler).
__no_initwould mean that the compiler should not initialize the variable, and would be used when a variable is placed at a hardware register location and you don’t want the start-up of the program to set the register to 0.__rootis used to tell the compiler/linker that the variable or function should be kept in the binary image even if it isn’t actually used in the program. This might be useful for debugging purposes and to ‘size’ a program while development is in progress.