AVR-Chat

> From: Don Kinzer
> ....
> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Chuck Hackett" <egroupscdh@...> wrote:
> > I used the __func__ compiler symbol which worked fine, except,
> > as far as I can tell WinAVR insists on placing the function
> > name in SRAM space as opposed to program space [...]
>
> Yes, all constant strings are RAM-based unless you specify otherwise.  The
> PSTR() macro defines a string residing in program space, e.g.
> 
> PSTR(__func__)

All I can say is "Dah, why didn't I think of that ..." - sometimes one gets so
caught up in the details that one forgets the simple stuff ...

> Of course, your code will need to be modified to read the string's characters
> from Flash, too.

Yup, no problem there ...

Thanks again ...
 
Cheers,

Chuck Hackett
"Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment"
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