Re: [avr-libc-dev] Adding sections to default linker script for >64kBFLASH devices

[Jan Waclawek]

> Sure. :-) I haven't had a chance to review the links yet...
> 
> But what did you have in mind?

It's to provide users an easy way to place potentially big constant data 
explicitly into the upper portions of FLASH in the >64kB . 

Honestly, I know this is a thing which would help only a minority of AVR users, 
and quite a bit of unpleasant organisational work (e.g. pestering the binutil 
peoplpe), so I expected it to be entirely ignored by the developer community 
exactly as it happened since the last time I threw it up. So, if the 
precondition to accept it is a discussion on this forum, then it won't be 
accepted ever simply because there's nobody willing to discuss.

While I know all this and honestly don't care enough to push it further, 
recently, several things happened: two users asked basically for the same 
feature on AVRFreaks on the same day, one complained about the nonfunctionality 
of the _PF stuff (I reported elsewhere), Johann told that there is a chance of 
getting the named spaces to work in a relatively near future (with the aim to 
implement the progmem stuff correctly, which is a point where the far-progmem 
stuff might got to be implemented correctly, too), and you told that you are 
going to issue a new edition of WinAVR soon. Cumulatively, these gave me the 
impulse to make this post.

Jan Waclawek