No TinyOS isn't dying. However, the main developers all have other primary tasks so getting things done is a little bit like herding cats. But thinks do happen.
hang in there. On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Roadstar Runner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I honestly think TinyOS is dying! The activity on the forum is almost down > to a trickle. It takes forever to get problems fixed ( if they do ever get > fixed) . > I have been stuck for more than a week trying to get the avr-studio-debug > flag to work with even a NseC program that is of respectable size (that > includes the radio stack) on the IRIS platform . > The solution seems to be to upgrade the gcc toolchain, though updating > the toolchain to work with TinyOS is almost a nightmare. > I stumbled upon a few rpms from Janos, but they dont install. > I seriously think new projects should think twice before using TinyOS in > their products > > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Philip Levis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This seems to be a basic avr-gcc problem: >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19087 >> >> It seems the general solution people are proposing involves rebuilding >> the compiler/tool chain so that dwarf debugging addresses are 2 bytes >> rather than 4. I am wondering whether newer avr-gcc releases solve this >> problem. >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> >> On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Roadstar Runner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> > Phil, >> > Thanks once again. >> > Is there an easy way for me to find a fix/workaround ? >> > Lewis >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Philip Levis <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > (responded to this unicast, thought I would put it here too) >> > >> > It looks like the avr-studio-debug flag doesn't support code sizes >> greater than 65,535 bytes. I'm not exactly sure why. >> > >> > Phil >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Apr 8, 2014, at 3:00 PM, Roadstar Runner <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > >> > > I have been compiling my program with the 'avr-studio-debug' flag so >> that i can use a JTAG to debug my software. >> > > Recently, even though my program compiles normally without the debug >> flag, it fails when i use the avr-studio-debug flag. I get a bunch of >> cryptic error message that reads like this >> > > >> > > /tmp/ccEjxlre.s:74677: Error: value of 65568 too large for field of 2 >> bytes at 26349 >> > > >> > > >> > > It seems that code i add, even modifying a local variable causes the >> compilation to fail. >> > > >> > > Here is my ROM/RAM size that compiles correctly with the debug flag. >> > > >> > > 68796 bytes in ROM >> > > 614 bytes in RAM >> > > >> > > Thanks >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Tinyos-help mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > >> https://www.millennium.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-help >> > >> > >> >> > -- Eric B. Decker Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
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