Re: [avr-gcc-list] ElfCoff Error parsing symbol

[Iztok Zupet]

Hi

  Did they mention where to obtain the GCC version of avrstudio?
Can't find anything like that on the net, yet.

iz

On Tuesday 18 June 2002 22:54, Glenn wrote:
> All,
>
> I attended an Atmel AVR seminar reciently. The Marketing Manager for AVR
> product line gave the presentation (his name was Ojay; didn't catch his
> last name).
>
> Anyway, they are promoting/recommending 3 toolsets packages:
> 1. High performance: STK500, ICE50, IAR, avrstudio; $5500US
> 2. Low-cost: STK500, ICE200/JTAGICE, ICC or CV, avrstudio; $577US or $377US
> 3. Nearly-free: STK500, avrstudio, GCC $79US
>
> Cheers! Atmel is promoting GCC! (But, brace yourselves for the onslaught of
> questions....)
> He even went so far to say the quality of the code was pretty good.
>
> BTW:
> When asked, he said that the AT86RF401 (AVR w/ OOK RF modem) and the
> AT43USB320A (AVR w/ USB HUB+FN) are a different group @ Atmel so he had no
> info about them. Obviousely, the FPSLIC (AVR+FPGA) is a different group (it
> runs @ 25MHz)! There will be a STK500 plug-on for that product.
> The AVR w/ 100-segment LCD controller (Mega169) was news to me.
>
> Regards,
>
> Glenn.
>
> --- Larry Barello <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Last year the Atmel folks assured me that they were working on
> > supporting GCC - the results is Astudio 4.0 and the ability to "plug"
> > in modules.
> >
> > This year, they assure me that their S/W guys are working on the
> > module directly supporting Dwarf/ELF, but of course, who knows when.
> > I assume they have the spec.  I don't know if they would appreciate
> > help.  The way to get started is to contact them at address@hidden and
> > ask to get hooked into the Studio developers (there are four full time
> > S/W developers working on it).
> >
> > Astudio works well with IAR, ICC and CV products.  Those products
> > either are intimately tied with the early adoption of AVR or did the
> > work, on their own, to produce COFF file output.  I don't see any
> > sinister commercial preferences, just prioritizing their efforts where
> > the biggest return is.  Atmel is perfectly aware of the excellent
> > quality of GCC - but it isn't user friendly for Windows folks and the
> > vast bulk of their users are using windows and windows based tools.
> > Perhaps if we all took a few minutes to request ELF support they might
> > be a bit more responsive?
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Iztok Zupet" <address@hidden>
> >
> > > On Tuesday 18 June 2002 15:33, Marek Michalkiewicz wrote:
> > > > >   The same happened to me when I tried elfcoff. Guess we'l have
> >
> > to wait
> >
> > > > > for another release of elfcoff or accidentaly someone might
> >
> > become
> >
> > > > > intersted in writing coff-avr bfd description file for gnu
> >
> > binutils...
> >
> > > > Would be even better if Atmel becomes interested in adding ELF
> >
> > support
> >
> > > > to AVR Studio.  Conversion between formats often loses
> >
> > information, so
> >
> > > > native ELF support should solve most of the current problems.
> > > >
> > > > ELF is an open standard, not specific to GCC or Linux, but also
> >
> > used
> >
> > > > on most of the modern Unices.  I'm not sure where the specs are,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > > I'm sure they must be publicly available somewhere...
> > > >
> > > > Marek
> > >
> > > Hi:
> > >
> > >  It seems to me that the Atmel company preferes commercial (not
> >
> > open)
> >
> > > standards for their products (AVR JTAG interface for instance) and
> >
> > that they
> >
> > > would prefer to seek commercial SW partnership then open source. So
> >
> > far, I
> >
> > > haven't found any up to date description of avr-coff format
> >
> > specialities.
> >
> >
> > avr-gcc-list at http://avr1.org
>
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