DEE Emulation absolute address issues w/linker

I've searched the forums for a solution, I found a post on how to relocate the buffer, but nothing about this issue...

I'm using a PIC24FJ256GB110, and the pic30 v3.11 compiler.

I'm having trouble understanding how to isolate the buffer in flash.  I've modified the allocation of the buffer to be:

unsigned char emulationPages[DATA_EE_BANKS * NUM_DATA_EE_PAGES][NUMBER_OF_INSTRUCTIONS_IN_PAGE * 2]
    __attribute__ ((space(prog), address(0x29400), /*aligned(NUMBER_OF_INSTRUCTIONS_IN_PAGE * 2), */ noload));


I've left DATA_EE_BANKS, etc. at the default settings.

The problem that I'm seeing in the map file, is that the linker ends up throwing a bunch of routines above this buffer:

0x029400                  _emulationPages
0x02a400                  _InitTimer2
0x02a41c                  __T2Interrupt
...
0x02a7d2                  _InitIOPorts
...
0x02a9de                  _main
...
0x02abce                  _InitConsole

Anyone know a way to avoid this?  I'd like to have the only the buffer at the top of memory so that I can rewrite the code and still keep the eeprom data.

Thanks in advance

Hi!
 
I have the same problem. And, what's the solution?

Thanks a lot, it works! I tried the complicated was to place the emulation pages into a dedicated memory section. I never thought that the linker allows to place data outside defined memory sections.