Hi Steve,
The stuff on the web site has a number of limitations. The information on building the software was updated recently, so that part is not too bad. The information about about mspgcc specific programming was put together a long time ago, and shows it. It lacks important information (like completely omitting how to handle low power modes - a significant omission for the MSP430, I would say :-) ). Some has become irrelevant, as better ways to achieve the same thing now exist (e.g. the RESERVE_RAM attribute to main(), is mentioned, but the old messy ways of achieving much the same thing aremore prominent). Some has a strong Russian accent :-).
I have some issues with the RESERVE_RAM attribute of main, mspgcc is the only gcc that uses that attribute and there are other ways of doing the same thing. It makes compiling to other platforms more difficult using the same code. I prefer the modified linker script option.
I took all I could find - the stuff from the web site, the stuff about the MSP430 that was posted here a few days ago, various notes that people have posted - and tried to mould them into the beginnings of a real user oriented manual. You can find the current state of this at http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/manual/mspgcc-manual.html. Anyone who would like to proof read, comment on, add to, or otherwise improve this is *most* welcome to do so. Its still in a raw state, but I have got far enough that I hope others might like to make some useful input.
The introduction looses its self a bit in talking about gdbproxy in the building section.
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