[Re: [avr-gcc-list] Allocating variables to a fixed address]

[Robert von Knobloch]

Thanks to all who have helped me to get the best solution.
I have eventually decided that an assembler jump table was really the
best in my application:
/*
 ******************************************************************************
 *   Function entry points for independent test routines
 ******************************************************************************
 */

// Function declarations
void test_lcd_2(PGM_P);
void test_lcd_string(PGM_P);
.
. //Snip/
.
void test_flash_read(uint16_t);
void test_flash_write(uint8_t, uint8_t);

void jumptable(void) __attribute__((__naked__));
FUNCTION_SECTION void jumptable(void)
{
    asm ("test_lcd_2:            jmp prog_lcd_string2");
    asm ("test_lcd_string:        jmp prog_lcd_string");
.
. //Snip/av
.
    asm ("test_pgm_read_byte:        jmp flash_read_byte");
    asm ("test_pgm_read_word:        jmp flash_read_word");
 }
======================================================

Curiously I could not use e.g.

asm ("test_pgm_read_byte:        jmp pgm_read_byte");
"undefined reference to 'pgm_read_byte'" although it is defined and in
scope.

Where pgm_read_byte is a library function from avr-libc.
I had to supply a stub function of my own [flash_read_byte()] to, in
turn,  call pgm_read_byte()
and then it was happy :-)

Thanks to all,

Robert.