● C99 compliance
Compliance with ISO C99 standard. Information about the effect of this change is available in the IAR Embedded Workbench for MSP430 Migration Guide
● New devices
Support has been added for these devices:
MSP430F5510
MSP430F6638
MSP430G2001
MSP430G2101, MSP430G2111, MSP430G2121, MSP430G2131
MSP430G2201, MSP430G2211, MSP430G2221, MSP430G2231
● __persistent
Global or static variables defined with the new attribute __persistent will not be initialized by cstartup, but only by a code downloader or similar add-on functionality. See the IAR C/C++ Compiler Reference Guide for MSP430 for more information.
● __ro_placement
You can use the new attribute __ro_placement in combination with the type qualifiers const and volatile to inform the compiler that a variable should be placed in read-only (code) memory. See the IAR C/C++ Compiler Reference Guide for MSP430 for more information.
● Find in files improvements
Regular expressions: You can now use regular expressions in the search field, if the corresponding check-box is selected. The regular expressions must use the Perl standard.
Search the whole workspace: You can now let the search traverse all projects in the workspace by selecting the option For all projects in workspace.
● Automatic driver installation
The installation program automatically installs the correct USB driver for the TI USB FET module depending, on your host operating system. The following operating systems are supported:
Windows XP 32/64, Windows Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64.
● New C-SPY macros
Two new C-SPY macros has been added; __isBatchMode() and __targetDebuggerVersion(). For more information see User guide corrections.
The IAR C/C++ Compiler Reference Guide for MSP430 has been updated.
The online help has a new look and feel. For the compiler, the online help information has also been updated.