I'll give uniarch a try, thanks for the status update.

I guess the real question I'm asking is which, if any, of these should we
release with?  I think it's worth having a supported compiler version since
we do hit bugs given we're compiling generated code...

Steve

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Peter Bigot <[email protected]> wrote:

> uniarch mspgcc is the new mspgcc4; there are no plans to release another
> mspgcc4 version, and support and code development has returned to the mspgcc
> project on sourceforge.  We may be within a week or two of having uniarch
> available in the experimental Debian package area, for those who don't want
> to build it by hand (the tinyos community is on the list to notify once that
> happens).  In fact, everything's there already except for msp430-libc, where
> we're still cleaning up copyright issues.
>
> All that's good in mspgcc4 is better in uniarch.  The current master
> branches are based on gcc 4.5.2, but the official first release will be
> based on 4.5.3.
>
> Peter
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen any recent discussion about moving to mspgcc4 for 2.1.2,
>> but I know people are using it and it has significantly better support for
>> upcoming msp revisions.  My question is if this is something we can shift to
>> recommending for the release, since it generates 5-10% smaller code with
>> more coming down the line, and the tree currently is known to work with it
>> at least on telosb and epic.
>>
>> Perhaps we could "recommend" mspgcc4 (some specific version which we
>> decide) and "deprecate" 3.2.3 for this release, but still test with both
>> compilers with the expectation we will move to the newer one only for future
>> releases?
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> --
>> stephen dawson-haggerty
>> http://cs.berkeley.edu/~stevedh
>> uc berkeley wireless and embedded systems lab
>> berkeley, ca 94720
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