Re: [avr-gcc-list] Someting Idon"t understand with PGM_P et pgm_read_byte_far()

[E. Weddington]

Royce & Sharal Pereira wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:49:31 +0100, Bernard Fouché  
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Is there a chance that sometimes such macros will change of data 
> > type  according to the target in a future release?
>
> In fact, I'm hoping that sometime soon, GCC will recognise different  
> memory spaces, and we can do away with these ugly macros altogether  
> :)...does any one know when this could happen?

Never, unless somebody writes it.

There was one person, Svein Seldal, who was interested in writing a 
patch and was supposedly working on it. But we haven't heard from him in 
a long time.

Beyond that, there's no one that I know of who is doing this.

Eric