- /** Forces GCC to create a memory barrier, ensuring that memory accesses are not reordered past the barrier point.
- * This can be used before ordering-critical operations, to ensure that the compiler does not re-order the resulting
- * assembly output in an unexpected manner on sections of code that are ordering-specific.
- */
- #define GCC_MEMORY_BARRIER() __asm__ __volatile__("" ::: "memory");
+ #if !defined(pgm_read_ptr) || defined(__DOXYGEN__)
+ /** Reads a pointer out of PROGMEM space on the AVR8 architecture. This is currently a wrapper for the
+ * avr-libc \c pgm_read_ptr() macro with a \c void* cast, so that its value can be assigned directly
+ * to a pointer variable or used in pointer arithmetic without further casting in C. In a future
+ * avr-libc distribution this will be part of the standard API and will be implemented in a more formal
+ * manner.
+ *
+ * \note This macro is not available for all architectures.
+ *
+ * \param[in] Address Address of the pointer to read.
+ *
+ * \return Pointer retrieved from PROGMEM space.
+ */
+ #define pgm_read_ptr(Address) (void*)pgm_read_word(Address)
+ #endif
+ #endif