Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Flash data

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anton Staaf [mailto:an...@so...]
> Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 2:15 PM
> To: Borja Ferrer
> Cc: avr...@li...
> Subject: Re: [avr-llvm-devel] Flash data
> 
> Hmm, if __flash acts in the same way as const, as in it's a qualifier.
>  Then could you make it a super set of const?  In other words __flash
> implies const?   

No, no, no and no.

One can have const data, but not want it in flash. And having const
imply a particular address space really does violate the C standard.

However, what I do question is if the user writes __flash, are they
really required to use const? It seems implicit in the use of __flash.

Eric Weddington