[avr-gcc-list] big string into the ROM

[drvdrv]

Hi,
I wrote a program. Shortly, it dispalys text on LCD. The text (it is one 
string) is stored in the ROM. It works fine but I faced with a problem 
when I wanted to increase the size of the text. The max. size is 16kB. 
Reading the list archives I found an other solution: first I compile only 
the text (mytext.c) by gcc (not avr_gcc), then I convert it to pure binary 
and then convert it to elf32-avr.

gcc -Wall -c -o mytext_gcc.o mytext.c
objcopy -I elf32-i386 -O binary mytext_gcc.o mytext.bin 
avr-objcopy -I binary -O elf32-avr mytext.bin mytext1.o

It works. However in the mytext.o there is a .data and debugging it 
with avr-studio it seems that all the string is loaded to data area so 
there is no free space to any other variable.

How can I tell the linker not to put this string to data area but left it in 
the ROM? Or put it from xxx ROM address?

I tried this way but it did not help:
avr-objcopy --rename-section .data=.progmem.data mytext1.o mytext.o

(and one more question: is there any way to modify avr-gcc so that 
allows compile bigger string and gives only warning and  not error? 
Then I could decide this warning is important or not.)

thanks in advance.
br
drv

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