[Bug 342667] Re: Can't compile for H8 tiny

[Kagetsuki]

I wonder why a non-working version is in the repositories to begin with.

For my application I need to use the 3069 because that's what is on the
board I need to develop on. This is the first time I've developed on an
H8 since I was in school, and at that point the tool chain was a snap to
build. It's a shame it's no longer maintained. I grabbed the newest
version from 秋月電子 today from a friend to see if that would work,
binutils built but gcc refused to configure because my system is AMD-64
which is an unknown architecture for that version. I'm running the
windows version in a virtualbox install now, which is less than
preferable but I'll make do for now. I'd consider HEW but that would
blow my budget and betray my love for the GNU toolchain.

 Depending on your application moving to AVR may not be hard at all, and
the GNU toolchain for AVR is very well developed and the packages are
all there in the repositories. It's hard to compare core architectures
for the H8 and AVR, but I'd say AVR and H8 occupy the top positions in
the 8-bit arena in terms of core efficiency. However, if you have an
application that requires a particular feature, like DMA or CAN, or an
embedded OS like uITron or HOS the AVR devices that support such
features are limited in number compared to the H8 series. If your
application isn't dependent on particular features not found in AVR I
would recommend grabbing a programmer (the AVR-ISP II ran me something
like 4,000 yen, and even the most full featured programmers will not run
you much more than about 30,000 yen I believe). Writing to the chips and
interfacing with them is quite different, but if you are just writing
flash with a simple programmer you don't need to worry about run modes
and what not. You can actually continually write to flash on a live
circuit without touching it, and it resets after each write so it makes
real world adjustment and debugging a pleasure. I really wish Renesas
would embrace the Open Source/GNU community as much as Atmel has.

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Can't compile for H8 tiny
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