David, > > JTAG will be nice. > > When you can get debugging working over JTAG, there will be many more happy > users. The TI parallel port JTAG device is quite good, and cheap at $99 > (with an evaluation board, and a crippled version of IAR's compiler), but > there are compatible ones available from Olimex at $10. As far as I > understand it, the msp-gcc guys (would that be Chris for this part?) have > got downloading to work over the TI JTAG adaptor, and a couple of simple > commands (reset, run, etc.), but not full debugging support. Once they've > been able to get the other critical commands working (breakpoints, > reading/writing memory and registers), then they will be well on the way to > a complete gdb-jtag debugger. Add your favourite gui front-end (mine is > gvd), and you can throw out C "it looks like you have almost found your > problem, so now's a good time to crash" Spy for ever.
Thanks for the GNU Visual Debugger(GVD ) tip . That looks like a nice debugging environment. > As for the compiler, I've used it for a couple of serious projects and find > it excellent. Especially with some of the optomisation flags turned on, it > generates very neat code. Good feedback. From what everbody has been saying, it sounds good enough for me. It sounds like I will not have to spend half my time analyzing the generated assembly looking for compiler errors. Hopefully all the errors will mostly be my own errors. -Ed
