------- Additional Comments From schlie at comcast dot net 2005-02-17 01:22 ------- Not sure if it's helpful (or further complicating) but as the avr uses a Harvard memory model; it's PC (program counter) actually references a 64K 16-bit program word address space which is orthogonal to it's 64KB data memory space (although a few specialized instructions do allow restrictive reference to it's program address space).
So wonder if program address should actually more simply be pre-scaled as being a word address, not byte address, thereby only requiring 16-bit (2 byte) program references by compiler/sssembler/etc.; thereby possibly sidestepping the otherwise necessity for a wider type to store program debug references (so coincidently wonder if this problem should also be simultaneously reported against binutils/gas/ld avr tools; which reminds me that I recall a few patches being checked in to cvs for gas/HEAD which extended it to support 16-bit (up from 15-bit) displacements, which may be a step along the path to a solution of the problems observed?) -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19087
