[avr-libc-dev] [bug #48473] FAQ: "How do I relocate code to a fixed address?" can be misleading

[Tyg]

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                 Summary: FAQ: "How do I relocate code to a fixed address?"
can be misleading
                 Project: AVR C Runtime Library
            Submitted by: tyg
            Submitted on: Mon 11 Jul 2016 06:26:31 PM GMT
                Category: Documentation
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.8.0
           Fixed Release: None

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Details:

The method described in http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/FAQ.html >
"How do I relocate code to a fixed address?" does not work in every
situation.

A function can get inlined during optimization. In this case the code is not
run from the specified address as I would expect.

I recently had a problem writing the FLASH on XMEGAs because of this (as the
SPM instruction has to reside in the boot section of FLASH). It took me a
while to debug this. My solution was to use the following attribute:

__attribute__ ((noinline, section (".boot")))

I suggest putting a note about this case. I think it would be very useful for
others like me.



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