Re: [avr-gcc-list] How to place data in FLASH on GCC 3.2 (avrfreaks)?

[Joerg Wunsch]

"Larry Barello" <address@hidden> wrote:

> This works under 3.02 (avrfreaks) but fails on 3.2 (experimental) because
> the data gets placed in SRAM rather than FLASH.
> 
> #define FLASH __attribute__ ((progmem))
> typedef struct
> {
>     ...
> } const FLASH SomeStruct;
> 
> SomeStruct MyData = {...};
> 
> 
> Why?

Because __attribute__ ((foo)) is apparently only honored within a
variable declaration, not within a typedef.

Since __attribute__ is a gcc extension, there's nothing the C standard
would tell you about this.

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