Re: mspgcc Red Hat release
Grant Edwards <[email protected]>
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On 2013-07-08, Brendan Conoboy <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/04/2013 07:10 PM, Peter Bigot wrote: >> I have no information about Red Hat's toolchain other than what's been >> announced here, but: >> >> Red Hat's MSP430 toolchain is entirely unrelated to mspgcc. I am unaware >> of any information having been provided related to support for libc or >> specific MCUs in this new work. While msp430mcu and msp430-libc might work >> with some fiddling, it's not clear they're needed, I very much doubt >> they're the intended solution, and they certainly don't incorporate any >> changes to accommodate Red Hat's implementation. > > There is now msp430 support in newlib: > > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/newlib/2013/msg00362.html > > Since we did a clean re-implementation of the MSP port we can't comment > on the pre-existing mspgcc library solutions: We really don't know. Our > plan is to support and enhance standard upstream infrastructure. For > libc this means newlib. How does newlib compare with the old msp430 libc when it comes to size? In the past, when I've tried newlib for embedded work it was _huge_. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Th' MIND is the Pizza at Palace of th' SOUL gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev