Re: [avr-libc-dev] pgmspace.h compatibility with -mint8

[E . Weddington]

> As E. Weddington wrote:
> 
> > > There is a small patch to make pgm_read_*() work 
with -mint8
> > > switch.
> 
> > However, I don't know if this will be put into the 
library, 
> > mainly because there are large portions of the library 
that 
> > are not -mint8 comptabile, and I don't know if there 
will 
> > ever be plans to make it so.
> 
> I think consensus was that we don't want to spend time on 
making it
> -mint8 clean, but we don't want to artificially prevent 
those parts to
> be -mint8 clean where this can be had without additional 
costs, in
> particular without any negative side effects on the !-
mint8 case.
> 
> I didn't look at the patch so far, but if it fits into 
this, I don't
> see a reason to not accept it.  The only nit is that it 
might be worth
> documenting when some header file is believed to be -
mint8 compatible
> (because we made a global statement that »avr-libc is 
basically not
> compatible with -mint8«).  We did some minor reorg on 
<inttypes.h>
> before to make it -mint8 compatible.  This is documented 
as well.
> 


Ah, it's all coming back to me.....
Ok, looked at the patch, and IMHO it should be committed as 
obvious on both head and branch. Opinion, Ted?

Eric