[avr-libc-dev] program space

[Curtis Maloney]

I realise this is more something for the gcc side of things, however...

Today at work I was trying to migrate some CodeVisionAVR code to GCC. 
CV makes it trivial to store stuff in EEPROM or FLASH, you just use the 
appropriate modifies on the variable declaration.

Of course, in the "non-target-specific" world of GCC, things are a 
little different.  But when trying to specify that a structure was in 
code space, I just could not achieve it.  I tried everything I could 
think of, but it just wouldn't work right.

And now I'm trying to move some big const tables into code space, 
instead of ram, so I can use my code on an 8535, but it requires making 
some significant changes to the test of my code to make it reference the 
code space.

Now, what I'm wondering is why can't some special attribute on vars be 
passed through to the back end so it a)puts it in .text, and b)knows to 
generate code-space accesses?

Or have I missed something fundamental?

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Curtis Maloney