[avr-gcc-list] String Utilities and Memories

[Chinmay Pendharkar]

Hi everyone,

I am a new member of this list. I have just started using AVRs and have been 
developing on a mega32 for a few months. 

My question is on memory access for string operations. I realise that the two 
different memories have different methods of accessing, escpically for string 
operations. The programm memory(ROM) can be accessed using the Program Space 
String Utilities library from avr-libc. And the RAM can be accessed by the 
Strings library from avr-libc. 

Is there a way to access both types of memories using a singular function which 
will intelligently judge on which of the two libraries is to be used? This 
basically leads to the question whether the two memories share address space? 
Or, whether a we can tell which memory the pointer is pointing to by looking at 
its value(Because, if it is posible then it such an intelligent function can be 
created quite easily). If it is possible, are there any libraries which have 
implemented such function. 

My question arises, since I was trying to create a generic function to read an 
process certain strings.I want to make it generic enough to access strings from 
different memories. 

Hope I am not asking something that has been asked before. Thanks and Nojy,

-Chinmay