Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc-4 TinyOs

[Ned Konz]

[mistakenly sent to avr-chat initially]

Arnim Littek wrote:
> > > > Ned Konz <address@hidden> 16/10/2007 2:21 a.m. >>>
> > Domenico Arenga wrote:
> > > I'm a student of the university  of Pisa, Italy. I would want to know if 
> > > it is possible to use avr-GCC 4 on tinyOs. Excuse the disturbance, and 
> > > thanks thousands.
>
> > The extensions to the compiler that the TinyOS people did to support the 
> > state machine constructs would be hard (as I recall, anyway) to do with 
> > straight GCC.
>
> You're making some interesting noises here.  Do you have any pointers to what 
> they've done over and above, say, function pointers?

Like many projects that wanted to extend the C (or C++) language, they
started with GCC.

They added interface wiring, native state machine constructs, and
probably other things that I don't recall.

See:

http://www.tinyos.net/
http://nesc.sf.net
http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/Resources/testbed/testbed-motes.html