Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Load / Store

[Weddington, E. <Eri...@at...>]

 

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> From: John Myers [mailto:ato...@gm...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 12:14 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Borja Ferrer; avr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Load / Store
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> I don't see why it would be inappropriate from the standpoint 
> of a High Level Language or even C.  A linker frees the user 
> from needing to manually place objects and it seems to me 
> having the compiler place const qualified objects in specific 
> areas is no different. I agree that we will still need to 
> support memory space qualifiers.

Then I will say it stronger: It violates the C language standard if you do this. None of the current C compilers for the AVR do this, and they are all fairly well conforming to the C language standard.