Re: [avr-gcc-list] Padding problem with "progmem"

[Larry Barello]

In assembly you need to tell the assembler:

    .balign 2

If you are declaring the string in C, the resulting code should
already be aligned.  Here is a fragment from my code (20010606 v3.0
compiler):

#define FLASH __attribute__ ((progmem))
static char FLASH stX[]     = "X:";

and the resulting asm (avr-gcc -S)

 .stabs "stX:S(0,24)=ar(0,23);0;2;(0,2)",38,0,18,stX
 .type stX,@object
 .size stX,3
stX:
 .string "X:"

---- Original Message -----
From: "Christoph Plattner" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>; <address@hidden>
Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2001 4:03 AM
Subject: [avr-gcc-list] Padding problem with "progmem"


>
> If the string has an even length, everything works ok.
> I now the reason (16bit code access, single characters of 8
> bit). But is it not possible to include a padding here, to
> start and stop every string on an even address, although we
> loose perhaps some bytes, if often single charaters are used.
>
> Is there a workaround for that problen, like a
> __asm__ __volatile__ (".align 2");