Atollic is less than xxxxRed

dthedens2 · ‎2010-10-01

Posted on October 01, 2010 at 21:38

Atollic is less than xxxxRed

#crippleware

Andrew Neil · ‎2011-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 14:09

Isn't Atollic the one where the free version is crippled so that you can't use printf?

I don't mean that it just doesn't come with a ready-to-run printf, so that you have to make your own - I mean specifically crippled so that it is impossible for you to add your own...

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.

Andrew Neil · ‎2011-05-17

Posted on May 17, 2011 at 14:09

Yes, it is:

''It is common to redirect the I/O from these functions to the actual embedded platform, such as redirecting printf() output to an LCD display or a serial cable ... The freeLite version of TrueSTUDIO do (sic) not support I/O redirection, and instead have do-nothing stubs compiled into the C runtime library.''

See:

http://www.atollic.com/index.php/kb/1-kb_building/4-kb_redirect_io