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From: "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@archeia.com>
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Subject: Re: How can I get this data into the .data section of the binary?
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 16:17:49 +0100
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On 17/06/2020 15:01, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> On 2020-06-17 15:37, Luke A. Guest wrote:

>> Interesting though.
>>
>> I wrote the above before trying. Trying to place it in ".rodata..."
>> caused a compiler error, placing it in .data worked, but there is still
>> elaboration code. 
> 
> The compiler error probably resulted from the compiler generating
> elaboration code to write something into the read-only ".rodata", right?

Nope, turns out it was the assembler:

/tmp/cc63XSy6.s: Assembler messages:
/tmp/cc63XSy6.s:5: Warning: setting incorrect section attributes for
.rodata.sdl__video__pixel_formats__pixel_format_index_1_lsb