Depends on when 2.1.2 is anticipated.  When uniarch moves to 4.5.3 it will
be supported, with bug-fix only releases.  New features (including 20-bit
support) will be prototyped in the 4.6.x branches.  Using
uniarch-mspgcc-4.5.3-20110701 (or whatever) would be the way I would
recommend, rather than hitching your wagon to the dead mspgcc4 horse.

Peter

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Stephen Dawson-Haggerty <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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>>
>
>
> --
> stephen dawson-haggerty
> http://cs.berkeley.edu/~stevedh
> uc berkeley wireless and embedded systems lab
> berkeley, ca 94720
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