Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc-4 TinyOs
2007-10-16 by Ned Konz
Arnim Littek wrote: >>>> Ned Konz <ned@bike-nomad.com> 16/10/2007 2:21 a.m. >>> >> Domenico Arenga wrote: >>> I'm a student of the university of Pisa, Italy. I would want to know if >>> it is possible to use avr-GCC 4 on tinyOs. Excuse the disturbance, and >>> thanks thousands. > >> The extensions to the compiler that the TinyOS people did to support the >> state machine constructs would be hard (as I recall, anyway) to do with >> straight GCC. > > You're making some interesting noises here. Do you have any pointers to what they've done over and above, say, function pointers? > Like many projects that wanted to extend the C (or C++) language, they started with GCC. They added interface wiring, native state machine constructs, and probably other things that I don't recall. See: http://www.tinyos.net/ http://nesc.sf.net http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/Resources/testbed/testbed-motes.html