From richard at imagecraft.com  Sat Mar  1 01:30:45 2008
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sat Mar  1 01:46:43 2008
Subject: [Icc-announce] ICCAVR 7.16A Released
Message-ID: <200803010946.m219kfPJ045532@mail.imagecraft.com>

V7.16A - March 1st, 2008
   IDE
     - [AppBuilder] Added support for all Mega and Tiny devices on the
       device list
     - Added File->Compile File->(Preprocess Only)
   Compiler
     - Added (R)CALL/RET -> (R)JMP tail call optimization
     - In some cases, a read from a "volatile" variable followed by a write
       to the target variable may cause the volatile read to be eliminated.
       This only applied to volatile variables, not volatile pointer
       references (e.g. IO registers). Example:

          some_var = volatile_var;
          some_var = ...


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From richard at imagecraft.com  Mon Mar  3 03:06:36 2008
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon Mar  3 03:22:41 2008
Subject: [Icc-announce] ICC430 V7.07 released 
Message-ID: <200803031122.m23BMcVF051571@mail.imagecraft.com>

V7.07 - March 3rd, 2008

   TI Supplied Files
     - new header files from TI
     - 2.3.x MSP430.DLL
   IDE
     - [ADV and PRO only] Added capability to create Library projects.
   Compiler
     [ the optimizations below should improve code size 2-4%, depending
       on the application ]
     - now generate sym(Rx) addressing mode, e.g.
         char buf[];
         ...
         int i;
         ...
         = buf[i] ...

       would use a single addressing mode to access the item

    - More optimal code for some cases when comparing against a constant.
      (The MSP430 does not have a full set of branch instructions nor does it
       allow an immediate as the second operand of a CMP instruction. With
       some comparisons, the old code generates moving of the constant to a
       register. The new code adjusts the constant by one and eliminates this
       move)

    - Added CALL/RET -> BR tail call optimization

    - Added support for volatile tracking, with effect that the peephole and
      register history optimizations being more effective.

   Library
     - the low level floating point to (unsigned) long conversion function
       was not working correctly for numbers larger than ~16000000.


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From richard at imagecraft.com  Thu Mar 20 16:56:14 2008
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Thu Mar 20 16:57:49 2008
Subject: [Icc-announce] Eliminating RCS -
Message-ID: <200803210057.m2L0vlmj057625@mail.imagecraft.com>

At the next major releases, unless there is strong objection, support 
for the RCS will be removed. I believe it has been broken for a while 
since some Windows upgrade and most people use their own solution for 
source code management need.

Let me know I am wrong on this.

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