Can an address be assigned to a variable in C?

Question

Is it possible to assign a variable the address you want, in the memory?

I tried to do so but I am getting an error as \"Lvalue required as left operand of assignmen

Answer 1

Use ldscript/linker command file. This will however, assign at link time, not run time.

Linker command file syntax depends largely on specific compiler. So you will need to google for linker command file, for your compiler.

Approximate pseudo syntax would be somewhat like this:

In linker command file:
.section start=0x1000 lenth=0x100 myVariables
In C file:
#pragma section myVariables
int myVar=10;