RE: [Simulavr-devel] simulator performance

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Kuethe [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:10 PM
> To: Joel Sherrill
> Cc: Weddington, Eric; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Simulavr-devel] simulator performance
> 
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Joel Sherrill
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Something I can see?  /dev/stdout?
> >
> > Sorry console is a word with meaning in the RTEMS
> > community.  It is from the old school UNIX /dev/console.
> 
> Like Eric said... "what console?"
> 
> There are examples in the avr-libc docs on how to set up something
> that looks like stdio to use some variant of printf(). or you could
> just write bytes to the USART yourself. But you're programming
> basically on bare metal, you don't have all the luxury frills that an
> OS provides...  (unless you're writing the OS)

Well, to be fair, Joel has done that:
<http://rtems.org/>

The problem (AIUI) is that RTEMS is used to running on Newlib, which provides a 
POSIX environment/library. Avr-libc does not.