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09/21/11 07:49
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#183826 - Still on the payroll
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Jan Waclawek said:
The SDCC tracker exploded in the last weeks with bugfixes. I wonder whether those few guys left their regular jobs or what.

Luckily that is not the case. But some bug reports turned out to be duplicates so fixing one automatically fixed the other. Or they were fixed already. I also updated many PIC related bug reports to make it easier to distinguish them from other bug reports. The PIC backends are still considered unstable. But this triggered a lot of 'bug tracker activity'.

Jan Waclawek said:
Andy Peters said:
Unfortunately, Actel doesn't support any version of sdcc other than what ships with their tools, so I can't take advantage of the fix.

Okay, and in what way do they "support" that old version? In other words, what prevents you to grab the newest nightly build and use it? Do they need a special type of binary, or is there some special hook in SDCC to fit somehow on their software tools? Or is there some special hardware feature to be supported?

It turns out that they use the ELF debugging format and use an omf2elf tool to convert to that. I was unaware of any 8051 debugger using ELF and I also did not know about omf2elf. To my knowledge there has never been a request for ELF output from SDCC for the mcs51 target. For hc08 SDCC already supports ELF.

Maarten

List of 17 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
SDCC: function pointers in an ISR            01/01/70 00:00      
   Alternative            01/01/70 00:00      
      re: Alternative            01/01/70 00:00      
         Register bank 1            01/01/70 00:00      
            re: register bank 1            01/01/70 00:00      
               Using...            01/01/70 00:00      
               Lack of orthogonality            01/01/70 00:00      
                  incorrect warning            01/01/70 00:00      
                     re: incorrect warning            01/01/70 00:00      
                        not fixed yet            01/01/70 00:00      
                           re: not fixed yet            01/01/70 00:00      
                              Actel's answer.            01/01/70 00:00      
   warning            01/01/70 00:00      
   function pointers in SDCC            01/01/70 00:00      
   bug fixed!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Actel support            01/01/70 00:00      
         Still on the payroll            01/01/70 00:00      

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