Re: [avr-chat] how is PGM_P supposed to be used?

[Graham Davies]

Britton Kerin wrote (in part):

> ... this ... prints garbage:
>     PGM_P hello_string = "hello\n";
>     printf_P (hello_string);

That's because it IS garbage.  You have declared variable 'hello_string' as 
a pointer to program memory and then initialized it with the address of a 
string in data memory.  What you need is this:

PGM_P hello_string = PSTR( "hello\n" );

Graham.