Hi,

I inherited some code and am trying to port it to the Raisonance compiler, but I'm having a problem. Virtually all of the variables are global. I know that it would be much better to dump them and rewrite, but we don't have time to do so at this point. What I want to do is make aliases for certain bits. I read the manual and help files and I am declaring char variables in bdata space, then declaring bit aliases. I want to extern the bit aliases for use throughout the program.

Lets say I have two files, one .c with globals, and another .h with externs for the globals.

In the .c file, I have the following

at 0x20 bdata char blah = 0;

sbit flag0 = blah^0;
sbit flag1 = blah^1;
.
.
.
sbit flag7 = blah^7;

In the .h file, I have...

extern bdata char blah;

extern sbit flag0;
extern sbit flag1;
.
.
.
extern sbit flag7;

Problem: the "extern sbit" gives me an error saying there is no absolute allocation. How do I alias the bits in a char in bdata and extern
them so that I can share them among the rest of my program?

Judy Harrigan