Re: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] more -mint8 changes for pgmspace.h

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, E.Weddington wrote:

>
> > > Ok, I'm opening up the can of worms again.
> > >
> > > See this: <http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/avr-libc-
> > > dev/2002-11/msg00111.html>
> > > and related thread.
> > >
> > > There was agreement by Ted and Jörg (and no disagreement
> > > from Marek per se) about the patch in the above message
> > > which changes avr-gcc to have a 32 bit type in -mint8
> and
> > > to drop the 64-bit type in -mint8. It seems that there
> is
> > > agreement that this makes more sense than the current
> setup.
> > >
> > > I would rather get this patch in to GCC (Hello, Denis?)
> and
> > > keep the 32 bit pgmspace macros for -mint8. So, yes, I
> have
> > > some objections.
> >
> > That's a moot point. avr-libc-1.0 is bound to gcc-3.3.x.
> The patch for
> > gcc shouldn't go into the 3.3 branch at this point.
> Having those
> > macros defined is broken under the current
> implementation. We can
> > bring them back in the 1.1 cycle if gcc-3.4 includes the
> patch which
> > means we bump the major version number to 2 and bind avr-
> libc-2.0 to
> > gcc-3.4.
>
> Ok. Sounds good.

Alrighty. The attached is what I'll commit to HEAD and branch
tomorrow if there's no compelling reason not to by then.

Ted Roth

avr-libc-pgm-far-2.diff
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