On 12/20/2013 04:33 AM, Jan Waclawek wrote:
>>>> There really doesn't seem to be much of a point; GCC's AVR
>>>> support is very good these days.
>>>
>>> True, however sad it may be.
>>
>> It's sad that GCC supports AVR?
>
> No, the first part, i.e. that that killed avr-sdcc.
Ohhhhh ok.
>> What limitations? I use it every day at work, it works great for
>> me.
>
> There was no support for memory classes aka named address space until
> recent changes, it still does not properly support generic address
> space, support for the bigger memory parts sucks.
Ahh ok. Well I've not run into those issues in my work...guess I've
gotten lucky! I'm not really an AVR person (I'm primarily an ARM7
developer) but I have to maintain a few of my employer's previous
controller designs which are AVR-based.
> Besides it's hard
> to push through changes (this issue has many facets I won't discuss
> here) and mere users' requests are generally seen as annoyance. Atmel
> has hijacked it in the very same way as TI for msp-gcc (being bashed
> elsewhere in this thread). The documentation towards the mere uer
> sucks.
That does suck. :-(
-Dave
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