[avrdude-dev] Re: STK500v2 patch for avrdude?

[E. Weddington]

[Moving to list per discussion below]

Joerg Wunsch wrote:

> As E. Weddington wrote:
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> > Why can't we just go ahead and write to C99 standards? All platforms
> > that avrdude builds on use GCC anyways. I always prefer stdint.h
> > types and // comments myself.
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> Solaris + Sun Workshop compiler?
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> Not sure about their C99 status.  We used to have a license for that
> compiler but I'm not sure whether it's still available.
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Why can't we just specify that avrdude requires GCC (+ GNU as, ld)? It 
won't build with any of MS's compilers; it requires GCC to build on Windows.

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> > But we should probably discuss all this on the list, no?
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> Yes, we should.  If so, we might as well convert everything to
> <stdint.h> types then (where it makes sense).
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Eric