Re: [avr-gcc-list] agv-gcc with AVR Studio 4

[E. Weddington]

David Kelly wrote:

> > Interesting. Which version/build of AVR Studio are you using that has
> > this icon?
> >    
>
> Version 4.09 build 338. I install on F: rather than C: so its at:
> F:\Program Files\Atmel\AVR Tools\AvrStudio4\Resources\avrgcc.bmp
>
>  
Ah, yes, now I remember seeing that too. I'm not quite sure what they're 
going to use it for. Have you seen the icon? I think the answer should 
be: 2 monkeys, 1 minute. ;-)
They could use a better artist....

> Still, am being tripped by the GUI in not finding a way to load a
> precompiled binary into the simulator. The menu items simply will not
> un-dim. Can't debug until I can load my binary.
>
>  
Have you contacted Atmel? Also, you can post on the AVR Freaks website 
(www.avrfreaks.net). They have an AVR Studio 4 forum there and there are 
occasional answers from people in Atmel Norway.


> That is what I was trying to say. Disk to disk my slow FreeBSD box is 3x
> faster than my fast XP box, and XP is another 3x slower when the working
> files are on fileserver no matter (or likely because of) the aggressive
> local caching/mirroring. And this is with an essentially trivial project
> of 4 files which compile to about 1k of binary. 
Sheesh. I don't know why performance is so bad. I mean, besides it being 
a Micro$oft OS....

> Does XP have a utility
> similar to Unix time(1)? Otherwise my XP timings are only "1-Mississippi
> 2-Mississippi ..."
>
>  
Beats the hell out of me. You could always download Cygwin and run it 
under there with time(1), but then you'd have another layer to go 
through....

Eric