Fw: [avr-gcc-list] placing a variable in flash

[Royce & Sharal Pereira]

Hi,
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Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] placing a variable in flash


> Royce & Sharal Pereira wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >How can one assign a predetermined address to a variable in code?
> >
> >Say I place the Oscillator Calib. byte at 0x1fff. How can retreive it in
my
> >program? I have to 'tell' GCC to look for it at (byte)location 0x1fff;
which
> >means I need to have a variable(or const) located at 0x1fff.
> >
> >How does one do this?
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> Wouldn't the variable be better off stored in the EEPROM and not in
> Flash (Program Memory)?
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Is there some advantage of that as compared to storing it in flash?
Anyways, is it at all possible to fix a variable at a predetermined location
in flash ?

Thanks,
--Royce.