Anybody replying to this who gets a bounce from mspgcc-devel-owner because you're not on that list: ignore it, sorry I cc'd that list explicitly.
Peter On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Peter Bigot <[email protected] > wrote: > As I approach the end of the cleanup necessary before releasing the new gcc > 4.5.2-base unified architecture mspgcc for test, I'd like anybody who uses > or would defend preservation of the following features to reply with details > explaining that they do work and are useful. I want to get all the breakage > done up front. > > - The msp430-specific profiling infrastructure, including compiler > options -mpgs, -mpgl, -mpgr. As far as I can tell, these options are never > referenced in gcc, and are not recognized in binutils. There is a > profiling > infrastructure for msp430 in the GNU assembler which I don't intend to > remove at the moment, although the example code in the comment was rejected > with syntax errors when I tried it. (If you use that, please let me know.) > - -mrtl (apparently unused) and -mdeb dump options > - Support for the IAR assembler (-mIAR). I don't have this assembler, > so can't verify that it works; the only affect the flag seems to have is > that it defines _IAR_ASSEMBLER_ during preprocessing. > - The -maccumulate-outgoing-args option. > > There are likely to be other changes, including removal of all the > syntactic sugar that hides use of GCC attributes in function modifiers like > interrupt, critical, noinit, reentrant, etc. I'll add some sort of legacy > header file for people who explicitly want to use them, but having these > symbols defined in iomacros.h is just wrong. > > Sing out if you have an opinion on any of this. > > Peter >
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