Re: [avr-gcc-list] Syntax: Function pointer hell... newbee lost ! ;-)

[Dave N6NZ]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> I am still not quite clear why the map file reports Flash adresses
> twice that of what the memory pointer of the AVR chip actually holds
> physically ?

The not-very-technical answer:

Well, avr-gcc thinks the whole world is byte addressable.  But AVR flash 
is (16 bit) word addressable only.  So the avr-gcc tool chain works in 
byte addresses until the very last stages of prepping a binary, where 
flash addresses all get shifted right by one bit.

-dave

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