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
>> > >
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>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>


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Eric B. Decker
Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
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