Re: [avr-libc-dev] Problem accessing bytes in program space

[Rich Teer]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Paulo Marques wrote:

> > from elsewhere leads to data being read from God knows where:
> > 
> >     uart_puts (strcpy_P (buf, (PGM_P)pgm_read_word (&sms_keys[num][2])))
> 
> This is not what you want to do. What you want is more like (untested):
> 
> uart_puts (strcpy_P (buf, (PGM_P)(pgm_read_word(&sms_keys[num]) + 2)));

That did the trick--many thanks!

> At best, you're fetching the address of the second character of string "num",
> reading a pointer from that address, and then using that pointer to copy a
> string from.

Ah, the problem lies between my chair and keyboard.  :-)

Thanks again,

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