By adding an "eep" memory section, and a NOLOAD step into the linker
scripts, you can now let gcc allocate variables in eeprom for you.
However, as fitting for eeprom, they cannot be initialized, and will not
be loaded at any time. This simply lets you get place variables in the
eeprom space.
Example:
struct whatever __attribute__((section(".eeprom"))) blah;
struct another __attribute__((section(".eeprom"))) wop;
printf("%#x", &blah); // ==> 0x08080000
printf("%#x", &wop); // ==> 0x08080000 + sizeof(blah)
You can read directly out of these variables, but need to use the
eeprom_ routines for writing to them.
