Re: MSP430 RedHat Toolchain: minor issues

Some quick answers where available...

> and probably not MSP430 specific, with -Os "static inline
> functions()" are not inlined, i also tried adding
> __attribute__((always_inline)) but it did not seem to have an effect
> in a quick test.

Please try "extern inline functions()" instead.  There was a change in
the ISO standard that's been tripping up lots of software like this.

> it was probably a design decision to change the ABI and start with
> R12 instead of R15 for parameters. this leads to some work with
> assembler modules interacting with c modules.

The ABI is intended to be compatible with TI's own compiler.

> positively, after working around these issues (we use custom linker
> scripts anyway as we reserve space for a bootlaoder, MSP430F2xx) it
> compiles and runs :-)

Woot!

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