Hi,
I'm developping a arm-embedded project. I need to store some variables
to EEPROM. What I'm doing now is manually give each variable an address
and then I use that address to store the variable in EEPROM.
Unfortunately, that's not easy. Yesterday I spent some hours trying to
see why the code I wrote does not work. This morning I thought of a
possible reason, and I think I'm right : I was overlapping some variables.
So I'm trying to find a simpler way to have the relative position of
variables to use as an address in an EEPROM.
I'm tinking about using a record. Is there a way to get the relative
position of a record-element ?
Some psuedo-code :
EEPROM_Content : record of
Var1 : byte;
Var2 : word;
Var3 : byte;
end{EEPROM_Content};
EEPROM_WriteByte(<position of Var1 in EEPROM_Content>,EEPROM_Content.Var1);
//<position of Var1 in EEPROM_Content> should be 0
EEPROM_WriteWord(<position of Var2 in EEPROM_Content>,EEPROM_Content.Var2);
//<position of Var2 in EEPROM_Content> should be 1
EEPROM_WriteByte(<position of Var3 in EEPROM_Content>,EEPROM_Content.Var3);
//<position of Var3 in EEPROM_Content> should be 4
I think I could use
@EEPROM_Content.Var1-@EEPROM_Content.Var1
@EEPROM_Content.Var2-@EEPROM_Content.Var1
@EEPROM_Content.Var3-@EEPROM_Content.Var1
as those positions, but is this computed at compile-time, or at run-time
? Am I right if I assume EEPROM_Content.Var1 is at relative position 0
in the record ?
I prefer to have the individual variables written to EEPROM, but maybe
writing the whole record in one go would be possible also. Then I don't
need to hassle with the positions. I mean, it _is_ possible to do that
but if it's suited for the project I don't know yet.
Other solutions ?
Mmm, writing things out clears the mind. I think it would be better to
write the whole record.
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
Koenraad Lelong
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