>>>>> Joerg Wunsch <j...@uriah.heep.sax.de> writes:
>>>>> As Ivan Shmakov wrote:
[…]
> If I read the mailinglist articles again, I remember there had been
> some unexpected trouble in preparing that release (the tree was
> broken, and I had to backout some changes before rolling it). That
> probably explains the difference in the date (intended date was Dec
> 28, actual then Dec 29), as well as the other slips (forgotten
> announcements etc.).
ACK.
>> Supports “long” integers' arithmetics, as well as fixed and floating
>> point numbers,
> Well, that's more a feature of the compiler.
I guess I've mistaken AVR Libc for libgcc, then. Thanks.
> Perhaps you want to replace the “long” by `64-bit' to be more exact?
> (Though AVR-GCC's 64-bit support, while working, is not its brightest
> side, arguably.)
Don't the 32-bit integers also require compiler's support for
certain MCU's in the AVR family?
>> and standard mathematic functions.
So, I've rewritten it as follows:
Supports standard mathematical functions for fixed [point] and
floating point numbers. […]
>> Contains facilities to control the peripherals within MCU.
> I'd probably put that a bit more generic:
> "Contains facilities to control specific aspects of the MCU, like
> peripherals, memory areas, interrupts, power management, as well as
> utilities for calculating delay cycles, CRCs, baud rate prescalers
> etc."
ACK, thanks!
I doubt that it will fit the A6 @ 14 pt flyers we're preparing
right now (as one can see in [1], we've only got half a line of
spare space), but we also consider forming an A3 poster of such
short descriptions, where the note above should fit perfectly.
[1]
http://styldeks.am-1.org/~ivan/doc-files/sfd-2012/free-software-1346657742.pdf
>> Along with a cross-environment based on GCC and GNU Binutils, and
>> also debugging (AVaRICE, GDB, SimulAVR) and executable images
>> loading (AVRDUDE, UISP) tools, this library comprises free software
>> toolkit for an embedded systems software developer.
> I probably wouldn't mention UISP anymore. It's been unmaintained for
> more than 7 years now.
ACK. Then I guess it should be removed from [2], too. (The
page seems to have a few more minor issues; I hope to take a
closer look at it a bit later.)
[2] http://avr-libc.nongnu.org/
> (freecode)
[…]
>> (I could probably maintain the entry myself, although not sure for
>> how long, but I don't see there a conventional “announcements”
>> mailing list, and neither do I seem to find the announcements in
>> this mailing list.)
> See above, not formally announcing 1.8.0 was a mistake caused by the
> circumstances around it. Normally, I do announce releases to the
> mailinglist.
ACK, thanks. (Though I'd prefer a separate mailing list, since
I'm not actually a subscriber, but instead check the list's
archive at Gmane from time to time.)
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