Re: [avr-gcc-list] Syntax: Function pointer hell... newbee lost ! ;-)

[Vincent Trouilliez]

"Dave Hylands" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Because all of the tools expect to work in bytes, but internally, the
> AVR actually works in words which are 16-bits wide (we're talking
> about code addresses here).
> 
> This means that tools like objdump and objcopy and the linker all
> continue to use byte addresses, but the actual code uses word
> addresses.


> "Dave N6NZ" wrote:
> The not-very-technical answer:

> Well, avr-gcc thinks the whole world is byte addressable.  But AVR flash 
> is (16 bit) word addressable only.  So the avr-gcc tool chain works in 
> byte addresses until the very last stages of prepping a binary, where 
> flash addresses all get shifted right by one bit.



Thanks Dave and Dave ! ;-)

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Vince