Re: Microchip Introduces First 16-bit Microcontroller Product Line - the PIC24

Michael N. Moran wrote:

> Ian Bell wrote:
>> Andreas Schwarz wrote:
>>>The problem is that you need different instructions to read from RAM and
>>>ROM, so you often end up with two functions that do the same thing, one
>>>for RAM arguments (printf), and one for ROM arguments (printf_P).
>>
>> Right so the *real* problem is handling large constant strings.
>
> Well ... strings are only one part of the problem.
> Any constant tables/arrays, such as:
>
> o state tables
> o lookup-tables
> o <shield-up> v-tables <shield-down>
>
> are problematic to most traditional compilers/languages that
> only understand a single contiguous address space.
>
>

But surely that is a *compiler* issue not a fault of the underlying
architecture?

Ian
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