RFA: Doc update: Describe new MSP430 feature

Gerald Pfeifer gerald@pfeifer.com
Tue May 5 22:10:00 GMT 2015


Hi Nick,

On Tue, 5 May 2015, Nick Clifton wrote:
>   I recently contributes a patch to enhance the MSP430 backend with the
>   ability to automatically distribute code and data between high and low
>   memory regions.  Below is a patch to update the html documentation
>   with a description of this new feature.  Is it OK to apply ?

as maintainer of the port you do not need anyone else's approval.

That said, I am always happy to provide a second pair of eyes, so
here are some comments:

> Index: htdocs/gcc-5/changes.html
> ===================================================================
> +    <li><p>The MSP430 compiler now has the ability to automatically distribute code
> +      and data between low (less than 64K) memory and high memory. 

Should that be "addresses below ..." or something like that, since
the system would still have more than 64K of memory, not less?

> +      This only
> +      applies parts 

Is a "to" missing here?

> +      <p>Two new command line options - <code>-mcode-region=[lower|upper|either]</code>

"command-line options"


Does this really apply to GCC 5, or GCC 6 and the (new) gcc-6/changes.html?

Gerald



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