Re: uint8_t SRAM variable for ATmega328p allocated at 0x060 (instead of 0x0100) in avr-gcc 4.6.2, 7.3.2

> Could you pass -v and -Wl,--verbose to the link command line as well and
> show us the output? That'll tell us if avr-gcc passed the right VMA for
> .data, and will also print the linker script used, so we can see if
> you ran into the binutils bug JW mentioned.

$ /usr/local/avr/bin/avr-gcc
-Wl,--gc-sections,-Map,obj/testVolatile.elf.map  -mmcu=atmega328
/usr/local/avr/avr/lib/libm.a -o obj/testVolatile.elf obj/main.o -v
-Wl,--verbose -lm
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=/usr/local/avr/bin/avr-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/local/avr/libexec/gcc/avr/4.7.3/lto-wrapper.exe
Target: avr
Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr/local/avr --target=avr
--enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-nls --disable-libssp --with-dwarf2
Thread model: single
gcc version 4.7.3 (GCC)
COMPILER_PATH=/usr/local/avr/libexec/gcc/avr/4.7.3/:/usr/local/avr/libexec/gcc/avr/4.7.3/:/usr/local/avr/libexec/gcc/avr/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/bin/
LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/avr5/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/lib/avr5/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/:/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/lib/
COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS='-mmcu=atmega328' '-o' 'obj/testVolatile.elf' '-v'
 /usr/local/avr/libexec/gcc/avr/4.7.3/collect2.exe -m avr5 -Tdata
0x800100 -o obj/testVolatile.elf
/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/lib/avr5/crtm328.o
-L/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/avr5
-L/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/lib/avr5
-L/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3
-L/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/../../../../avr/lib --gc-sections
-Map obj/testVolatile.elf.map /usr/local/avr/avr/lib/libm.a obj/main.o
--verbose -lm -lgcc -lc -lgcc
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22
  Supported emulations:
   avr2
   avr1
   avr25
   avr3
   avr31
   avr35
   avr4
   avr5
   avr51
   avr6
   avrxmega1
   avrxmega2
   avrxmega3
   avrxmega4
   avrxmega5
   avrxmega6
   avrxmega7
opened script file /usr/local/avr/avr/bin/../lib/ldscripts/avr5.x
using external linker script:
==================================================
/* Default linker script, for normal executables */
OUTPUT_FORMAT("elf32-avr","elf32-avr","elf32-avr")
OUTPUT_ARCH(avr:5)
MEMORY
{
  text   (rx)   : ORIGIN = 0, LENGTH = 128K
  data   (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x800060, LENGTH = 0xffa0
  eeprom (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x810000, LENGTH = 64K
  fuse      (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x820000, LENGTH = 1K
  lock      (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x830000, LENGTH = 1K
  signature (rw!x) : ORIGIN = 0x840000, LENGTH = 1K
}
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    *(.lowtext*)
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obj/main.o
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(/usr/local/avr/lib/gcc/avr/4.7.3/avr5/libgcc.a)_clear_bss.o
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