- Put the vars in your own area. In C, do

 #pragma data:uninit_vars
 char a, b, c;
 #pragma data:data

You can refer to them as normal extern in other files.

- ask the linker to put uninit_vars area after the "data" area. To do this, you need to modify the startup file (see Help under "Startup File"), you should see something like

         .area data
 __data_start::
         .area bss
 __bss_start::

somewhere in the middle of the file. Change it to:

         .area data
 __data_start::
        .area uninit_vars
 __uninit_vars_start::
         .area bss
 __bss_start::

Now compile startup as mentioned and all should be well. You can double check the address allocation by doing Help->"View Map File" under the IDE to make sure the addresses are expected.

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