On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Georg-Johann Lay <a...@gjlay.de> wrote:
> For some targets, the best place to put read-only lookup tables as
> generated by -ftree-switch-conversion is not the generic address space
> but some target specific address space.
>
> This is the case for AVR, where for most devices .rodata must be
> located in RAM.
>
> Part #1 adds a new, optional target hook that queries the back-end
> about the desired address space.  There is currently only one user:
> tree-switch-conversion.c::build_one_array() which re-builds value_type
> and array_type if the address space returned by the backend is not
> the generic one.
>
> Part #2 is the AVR part that implements the new hook and adds some
> sugar around it.

Given that switch-conversion just creates a constant initializer doesn't AVR
benefit from handling those uniformly (at RTL expansion?).  Not sure but
I think it goes through the regular constant pool handling.

Richard.

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