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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Tinyos-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-devel >> >> > -- stephen dawson-haggerty http://cs.berkeley.edu/~stevedh uc berkeley wireless and embedded systems lab berkeley, ca 94720
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