RE: [avr-libc-dev] [RFC] Signature API

[Weddington, Eric]

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> As Weddington, Eric wrote:
> 
> > The idea is that by including this file, the .signature section of
> > the ELF file would be populated with the signature bytes that are
> > defined in the individual I/O file. This allows programming tools
> > (such as AVR Studio) the ability to compare the on-chip signature
> > with the one in the file. All the user has to do is to include the
> > header file, so there's really not much of an API.
> 
> I wonder whether there's a point in using a struct rather than a
> three-byte array?

In theory, it doesn't really matter. It seems the OP (on the Freaks thread) did 
a little copy and past from the fuses header file. Is there a reason you have 
for the preference?