ICC430 Readme file

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CHANGE LOGS:
V7.06 - June 25th 2007
  [ Vista compatible licensing engine ]
  IDE/Compiler
    - Added checkbox and switch "Vectors start at 0xFFC0" / -dvec for 430X
      and other devices that has larger vector space.
  DLL
    - Includes 2.1.10 of MSP430.DLL
  Header files
    - New header files from TI

V7.05A - Feb 14th 2007
  IDE/Compiler 
    - Added F22xx and F23xx as 430X devices

V7.05 - Feb 8th 2007
  IDE/Compiler
    - Added device listing for the 430X FG46xx devices. No > 64K addressing
      supported yet (TBD later in ADV/PRO versions).
  Compiler
    - Further improvement to 32 bit == != code (thanks to Kirk Bailey)
    - Interface to the 32 bit internal functions for longs and floating
      point now use R12/R13 in addition to R14/R15 for argument passing, 
      resulting in smaller and faster code. To function names are slightly
      changed with the addition of a "x" suffix so any attempt to link with
      older libraries would correctly fail.
  Library
    - faster structure copying and str*/mem* functions
  TI DLL for flash programming and debugging
    - upgraded to the latest 2.8.1 of the MSP430.DLL and HIL.DLL
  Documentation
    - Fixed documentation to list R8/9 as volatile registers and not preserved
      registers

V7.04 - Jan 11th 2007
  Minor licensing changes
  IDE
    - Some of the F2xxx devices have the incorrect SRAM sizes
    - Added all latest devices
  Header Files
    - New header files from TI
  Linker
    - Static variables and functions now appear in the .mp MAP file
  Library
    - Much faster floating point divide function, courtesy of Jon Kirwan.

V7.03 - Oct 16th 2006
  Compiler
    - Much better code generation for 32 bit compare
    - Structure assignment via pointer was incorrectly trashing the 
      pointer value after the copy
  Library
    - itoa/ltoa/print %d/%ld now print -32768 and -2147483648 (e.g. high bit
      on) instead of -0

V7.02A - August 29th 2006
  Licensing should be more tolerant with laptop docking station, bluetooth
  devices etc.

  Compiler
    - MIO/PRO fixes and improvements
    - reverted to the V6 behaviors of single instruction Read-Write-Modify
      on volatile variables and IO registers.
  Library
    - abs was incorrect since V7.01
    - added %p to printf and scanf

V7.02 - July 18 2006
  [ PRO version with MIO first release ]
  IDE
    - Added device settings for 200x and 201x devices
    - Added %D (for project directory) macro for command expansion 
  IDE/Compiler
    - Added MIO global optimizer

V7.01 - June 1 2006
  Installer
    - Due to the fact that some customers have custom modified MSP430.dll
      for special JTAG device, the installer now always ask if the user
      wants to overwrite the DLL
  IDE/Compiler
    - BETA TESTING: enabled Global Optimizations option under all versions
      except expired 45 day demo. NOTE: enabling Global Optimization will 
      likely not be reducing code size for the time being. Program execution
      speed should however be improved. We are working on code size
      improvements and will release an update ASAP.
    - After performing a "Project->SaveAs...", doing other project operations
      such as adding a file to the project may cause the IDE to generate an
      Access Violation error.
    - Project file list changes were not automatically saved when the IDE 
      exited.
  C Preprocessor
    - Completely NEW C99 conformant C preprocessor (VARARGS macros etc.)
  Compiler/Library
    - Much faster conversion code between float and unsigned number
  Compiler
    - The compiler was not eliminating
         mov.b X,X
      note: if the operand is register, this sequence may still get emitted
      to zero out the upper byte
    - signed multiply by a constant of power of two was using the HW Multiply
      unit when it would be faster to do left shifting.
  Linker / Code Compressor (ADV/PRO only)
    - Calling a function outside of the text area (e.g. a bootloader function)
      was causing the code compressor to assert.
  Library
    - the low level Floating Point multiply routine using the HW multiplier
      was not disabling/enabling the interrupt and hence is not safe when
      used in an interrupt environment
  ICC430DL.exe (command line flash programming utility)
    - Added "blow security fuse" option:
        icc430dl -SECURE
      only work with USB JTAG. Use with care!!!

V7.00 Feb. 28th, 2006
  IDE
    - Added all known MSP430 flash devices to the device list
    - Corrected RAM memory map for devices with mirrored SRAM
    - File->"Close All Files" now have the option is save all or prompt for
      changes
    - Fixed a problem where if a project .src file is readonly, the IDE
      was not able to close the project.
    - Many miscellaneous GUI bug fixes and enhancements over V6 IDE
  Compiler
    - Improved global register allocation.
    - Improved local register allocation. Should see less register moves after
      a function call.
    - MUL by power of 2 are done by shifts regardless whether there is a MULT
      hardware unit or not
    - The sequence
        Jxx L1
        JMP L2
      L1: ...
   
      is now replaced by
        J<flip>xx L2
  Header Files
    - Added support for all known devices (courtesy of TI Inc.)