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

Not portably. But some compilers (usually for the embedded world) have extensions to do it.

For example on IAR compiler (here for MSP430), you can do this:

static const char version[] @ 0x1000 = "v1.0";

This will put object version at memory address 0x1000.