Applied the following patch that moved the note about the progmem attribute for AVR from the "improvements" section to "caveats".
Johann * gcc-4.6/changes.html (avr): Mode note on progmem attribute from "improvments" to "caveats". Index: gcc-4.6/changes.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/gcc-4.6/changes.html,v retrieving revision 1.142 diff -u -p -r1.142 changes.html --- gcc-4.6/changes.html 10 Aug 2012 16:25:46 -0000 1.142 +++ gcc-4.6/changes.html 19 Sep 2012 15:52:01 -0000 @@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ by this change. (This change affects GCC versions 4.6.4 and later, with the exception of versions 4.7.0 and 4.7.1.)</li> + <li id="avr">On AVR, variables with the <code>progmem</code> + attribute to locate data in flash memory must be qualified + as <code>const</code>.</li> + <li><p>Support for a number of older systems and recently unmaintained or untested target ports of GCC has been declared obsolete in GCC 4.6. Unless there is activity to revive them, the @@ -801,13 +805,6 @@ default.</li> </ul> -<a name="avr"></a> -<h3 id="avr">AVR</h3> - <ul> - <li>Variables with the <code>progmem</code> attribute to locate data - in flash memory must be qualified as <code>const</code>.</li> - </ul> - <h3>IA-32/x86-64</h3> <ul> <li>