From: Theodore A. R. <tr...@ve...> - 2002-04-16 17:04:26
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Howdy Folks, Now that tax season is over (for those in the USA), I figured it's time to unleash some goodies. Simulavr-0.1.0 has been released. This mostly just adds lots of regression tests, but fixes quite a few bugs. The interface with gdb has changed, so you need to use my latest gdb patch. gdb-cvs-5.x-avr-patch-0.0-pre4 is available. This patch includes a fix to allow debugging of programs larger than 64K bytes. This is the patch you need to use with the latest simulavr or a patched version of avarice. Patch only applies to latest cvs version of gdb. WILL NOT WORK WITH gdb-5.1.1 or older. It looks like my copyright assignment for gdb should go through any time now (the FSF has the papers, just need to process them) so this looks pretty close to what I will submit. We should have avr support in gdb 5.2.1 from what I've been told. I will make a patch available for gdb-5.2 as soon as it is released. I've packaged up all the avr tools that I know of into rpm files. The rpms include Peter Jansen's mega128 and C++ patches and my fixes for uisp. Also included is a patched version of avarice-1.5 which works with the latest gdb patch. If anyone decides to mirror these rpms, please drop me a note and I will put up links to the mirrors. Also, I've uploaded all of the patches and rpm spec files I used to build the rpms. All of these are available on the simulavr website: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/simulavr/ See the README file in the binaries directory of the download area for more information on the rpm files. I anyone has problems with any of these files I am providing, please let me know so I can try and fix things. For what it's worth, I'm using the rpm packages for daily work and haven't had any problems. Enjoy. Ted Roth |