[Tinyos-devel] more bugging about current consumption on MicaZ in tinyos-2.x

[Eric Weddington]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Gay [mailto:dgay42 at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:31 PM
> To: TinyOS-Devel list; Eric Weddington
> Cc: henri dubois-ferriere
> Subject: Re: [Tinyos-devel] more bugging about current 
> consumption on MicaZ in tinyos-2.x
> 
> On 7/27/06, Eric Weddington <eweddington at cso.atmel.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, Henri, for your insights, they were quite valuable. Yes, GCC
> > supports the ATmega1281. However, this support is in 
> WinAVR, not currently
> > in David Gay's specialized distribution of AVR GCC.
> 
> Note that nesC does not require that you use our distribution of
> avr-gcc. If you want to use your own, just make sure it's in your
> path. TinyOS platforms specify the gcc version to use in the
> ".platform" file found in each platform's directory
> (tos/platforms/mica2/.platform, e.g.) - look for the gcc=... line in
> one of those files.
> 
> If you are using cygwin, and a gcc compiled for a non-cygwin
> environment (e.g., WinAVR), then you'll need to add a -mingw-gcc
> option in the .platform file (this tells the nesC compiler to convert
> cygwin paths to windows paths). Note that I haven't tested this option
> recently...
> 
> David Gay
> PS: Use a recent version of nesC - earlier ones specified the name of
> the gcc compiler in two places.

Hi David,

Does this assume, however, that whatever distribution of AVR GCC that one
uses, must include your "dollar signs in identifiers" patch to binutils
(gas)?

Eric Weddington