RE: [avr-libc-dev] New release?

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anatoly Sokolov [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 9:16 AM
> To: Weddington, Eric; address@hidden
> Cc: Joerg Wunsch
> Subject: Re: [avr-libc-dev] New release?
> 
> Hi.
> 
> As Weddington, Eric wrote:
> > I'm interested in having a new release of avr-libc, 
> sometime early next
> > week. I would be very interested in releasing 1.6.0.
> 
> > I still have some changes to go into avr-libc that I will 
> be working on
> > this week.
> 
> I suggest to set up the minimal required version of GCC as 4.2.
> It will allow:
> A
> 1. To remove check of new devices which are already supported 
> in the GCC 4.2 
> from 'configure.ac' file.

Though leaving those checks in there does not do any harm.
 
> 2. To remove avr25 divices from 'AVR12_DEV_INFO' in 
> 'gen-avr-lib-tree.sh' 
> file, and do not build 'crt*' files for this devices twice.

That would be nice.

> 3. Do not define '__AVR_HAVE_MOVW__', '__AVR_HAVE_LPMX__' and 
> '__AVR_HAVE_MUL__' macros in avr-libc.

Are these macros used anywhere in avr-libc?

I saw that you updated the task about adding in an avr35 architecture.
FYI, I have patches that add another architecture. I do not want to
clash later when trying to commit those patches.

Eric