Re: Prediction of local code modifications

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:23:56 -0400, George Neuner wrote:

> Taking your example, blocks A B C & D and relocating B -> B', you can
> overwrite the beginning of B with a jump to B' and append to B' a jump
> to C.  No address changes are necessary in the unmoved blocks.  If you
> need to reuse the fast RAM code space, you restore the overwritten
> words of B from B' before swapping in new code.

I think this might work.

> It's been a while since I've done any DSP programming and I don't know
> what chip you're using, but if your compiler can generate position
> independent code, it will simplify your task greatly.

I'm new to compilers but in my opinion the generation of position
independent code is not possible for my DSP having problems with
all these different misalignment issues. Or do you see a possibility
to produce "stable" code which is not that sensitive to the position
of the code fragments?

Tim