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cminminlast Monday at 7:47 AM1 replyview on HN

your programs have a data segment. its not the heap nor the stack... and it can be (depending on loader/linker) a source of reliable object->address mappings as its not dynamically populated.


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repelsteeltjelast Monday at 8:30 AM

That sounds like your answer is: "Yes, global variables".

That may be a perfectly good solution in many embedded environments, but in most other context's global variables are considered bad design or very limiting and impractical.

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