Re: [avr-gcc-list] AVR-GCC question

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 14:23, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> > ie on say, a HC12, none of this is an issue because it behaves much
> > more like a "normal" system.
>
> Same for the TI MSP430 controller.
>
> The C standard always (*) allowed it to have string literals in
> read-only memory locations, but they need to be compatible with the
> respective standard library functions, as well as with other string
> objects in RAM.

Hmm but it is very *useful* to put string contants in Flash even if they are 
more difficult to read :)

It would be nice if some form of polymorphism happened that allowed the 
compiler/linker to automagically pick the right function to handle a given 
data type though.

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