Re: [avr-gcc-list] Re: an idea: adding serial sram to avr to extendheap storage

[Graham Davies]

Omar Choudary wrote:

> It should be trivial to use the heap in external RAM.
> ...  avr-libc seems to support it fully.

It may be "trivial" to allocate free-store (a.k.a. heap) memory in a serial 
SRAM by fiddling with malloc, but I'm pretty sure the OP wants the compiler 
to deal with accessing that memory, after allocation, as well.  That is far 
from trivial, hence this discussion thread.

Graham.