Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: "progmem_far" attribute

[Andy H]

Yes this should be more than enough for data!

I am happy with "high" or anything that is not "far".

(Its bad enough with "trampolines" that are not really trampolines.) ;-)

Andy

Anatoly Sokolov wrote:
> Hi.
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> From: "Andy H" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 8:51 PM
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> > A better name would be  progmem_high. FAR is entirely different.
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> Ok.
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> > Unlike some cpu  AVR does not need different direct JMP/CALL/RET... 
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> This patch adderss only to data. User space of 'progmem' section 
> limeted to  ~62KB. On 256KB devices it can be little. For this 
> reason I suggest to add the second "progmem_far(high)" section, and 
> for data access use *_PF() function from Carlos Lamas patch.
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> http://savannah.nongnu.org/patch/?6352
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> Anatoly.
>