IAR EWARM vs NXP ARMs, again

On Jul 1, 4:05=A0am, Mike Harrison <m...@whitewing.co.uk> wrote:

> >This is very strange. According to an earlier message from their tech
> >support, the linker (inter alia) is aware of what specific device
> >you've picked for the project, and for instance will automatically
> >generate the correct bootloader checksum for devices that require it.
>
> I think this is generated by the flash loader, not the linker. A while ag=
o when I was writing some
> IAP code, I had to generate the checksum myself - it was not included in =
the hex file. =A0

According to tech support, it is the linker and it is automatic as
long as you don't remove or change the label for the appropriate
vector. But that might be a recent innovation.

> Stick with it - once you get familiar with setting it up right it is a ve=
ry nice IDE, and there are
> free versions for a number of processor families including AVR and MSP430

I actually use it (although an older version) extensively at work for
ARM7 projects. We've moved away from IAR for MSP430 - Rowley is
better, not to mention cheaper. I do use the Kickstart version for
some of my home MSP430 projects; since they upped the code size from
2K to (?)8K, it's become really useful for a wide range of projects.

For AVR, I use WinAVR at home and Rowley at work. I don't work with
PIC if I can avoid it, but when I do, I'm either using raw asm or
CCS's compiler.

The thing is, those work projects were all old (>10 years, some of
them) projects that have been rolled into progressively newer and
newer compilers. They've been on EWARM for a long time already and all
the magical build steps are set up (some of them being seriously
magical).

In message <4a0e3751-a487-46b3-9e4d-faa71107a27d@j4g2000yqh.googlegroups
.com>, larwe <zwsdotcom@gmail.com> writes
>On Jun 30, 12:29&#4294967295;pm, Chris H <ch...@phaedsys.org> wrote:
>
>> >project options -> output converter -> generate additional output
>>
>> Some people know so much they don't read manuals.......
>
>If you're going to bitch endlessly that I didn't buy whatever you were
>pimping ten years ago,

I wasn't selling

>you could at least have the speck of decency
>and intelligence it would require to actually READ my postings. Or
>maybe you're just a macro that pops up to squawk "FOSS BAD! Braaaark!"
>every time you see a post from me, like some kind of demented, dongle-
>protected and nodelocked parrot.

It is you than does knee jerk reactions. Time after time after time....
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Am 02.07.2010 20:03, schrieb Chris H:

> It is you than does knee jerk reactions. Time after time after time....

That's rich, coming from you of all people.

You don't get to make that particular accusation stick until you manage 
_not_ to throw in you standard reaction as soon as anyone dares to as 
much as mention any open-source tool.  You're by far the most reliable 
knee-jerker around here, and I'm sure you know that.