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AVR studio VS Win Avr

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Afzal Hossain Khan

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Hi,
Recently I am working with avr studio 5 and I've completed my previous projects with win avr.I know these both use the same compiler which is GCC tool chain.But recently I've noticed a violent difference between them.

In case of saving data to ROM I use const unsigned char ****PGM[] PROGMEM="******************";
In that case avr studio keep this data in ROM as well as in ram.I mean after compiling I notice that both program and data memory size is changed . I think this data is treated as global variable to compiler.
But in case of win avr this data is only kept in ROM .
I'm totally confused.
 


Hello not- a -moderator,
Thank your information.My problem is out of these documentation.According to AVR GCC if i use PROGMEM to save data in flash it will work .My problem is that if I use winAVR every thing is okay. In case of avrstudio 5 all data are saved in ram as well ROM at start up of mcu.And not only that the firmware size is violently different between them.In case of winAVR firmware size is 1.7K where it's size is 8K when used avrstudio 5.My question is am I making any mistake while using avrstudio5 or avrstudio 5 is defective.
 

My guess would be that AvrStudio directs GCC to store the data in flash (rom); but when the uC starts up everything is loaded into ram due to there being no pointers set up to access the data directly from flash (rom).
 

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