Re: [avr-chat] binutils, gcc and avr-libc versions

[Bob von Knobloch]

On 28/04/13 11:28, "Ing. Daniel Rozsnyó" wrote:
> Hi,
>    don't be surprised. Upgrading the toolchain breaks things seriously.
> Once I've tried to do so I ended up with unimaginable problems which
> were hard to track down. When I found out what the issue was, I decided
> not to upgrade.
>
>    The change between avr lib versions was that they changed the order
> of arguments in eeprom access functions, so the source and destination
> became swapped.
>
>    Crazyness.
>
>    Regarding to your const issue - try to fix your sources with a
> script. I had to do that in PHP when they replaced ereg with preg and
> the syntax was a little different.
>
> Daniel
Thanks for your comments Daniel.
I would certainly make a sed/awk script to do the job, but first  need 
to decide if I want this 'upgrade'.
I wonder what else is waiting to catch me?

BTW which version swapped the eeprom access args (if you can remember)?

Bob

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