IAR Information Center for Renesas V850

Release notes

for IAR Embedded Workbench for Renesas V850 version 5.10.2

Read about the latest features, new device support, and program corrections in the release notes.

• Highlights
• Important information
• Release notes for individual components
• Product packages
• Installation and license activation

Highlights

Service Pack 5.10.2

• This update solves errors in the compiler and in the C-SPY simulator debugger.

Version 5.10.1

• Updated IDE look and feel
  The IDE has new artwork, enhancements to window management and docking, customizable toolbars, revised Information Center, and new tutorials.

• Enhanced Registers and Symbols windows in C-SPY
  The C-SPY Symbols and Registers windows have been re-designed with new features. The Symbols window now has a filtering function and a new column displaying to which program module a certain symbol belongs. Some of the new features in the Registers window are drag-and-drop support from source code windows, detailed register tool-tip information, and improved handling of user-defined registers groups.

• Improved C-STAT Static analysis

  • New checks have been added including about 20 new checks in the MISRA C 2004 package.
  • Improved analysis engine which increases the analysis precision.
  • The time-consuming false-positive analysis is now disabled by default but can be enabled by an option in the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE or on the command line.
  • A new option in the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE makes it possible to limit the number of messages generated per check and per file.
  • C-STAT message suppression can now be controlled by directives placed in comments in the source files.
  • A new option --deterministic has been added to ensure a deterministic amount of messages when running icstat with multiple threads, so that the amount of messages stays approximately the same from one analysis run to another. This option puts a limit on the option --parallel.

• Updated user documentation
  The IDE Project Management and Building Guide has been updated to reflect the product changes.

Important information

• Upgrade information
• Before you install
  

  To avoid any problems, do not install this release in a directory where you have previously installed any older version of IAR Embedded Workbench. It is recommended that you either uninstall an earlier product, or install this release in a separate directory. As before, however, it is possible to install different products, all using the same version of the main application, in the same root directory.

• License renewal
  

  The upgrade to this version might require a license renewal. This is performed by starting the IAR License Manager and selecting License>Check for License Renewal.
  Note, if you have a network license, this must be performed on the license server.

• Microsoft SCC interface no longer supported
  

  Microsoft SCC-compatible version control systems are no longer supported by IAR Embedded Workbench.

• Microsoft Windows
  

  Windows Vista and newer operating systems have a security mechanism called UAC (User Access Control). Disabling UAC will automatically grant you permission when a task requires administrative rights but this is not recommended because it will reduce the security of the computer. It is not necessary to run the IAR Embedded Workbench IDE as an administrator. However, if you are not, modifications to the installed product tree in C:\Program Files\IAR Systems might not work as intended and could give unexpected results. One example is opening and building projects directly from the installed product tree. The build will succeed, but the resulting files (object, list, ...) will not appear where expected. Instead all output files will be redirected by the OS to C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\IAR Systems. To avoid this, the preferred way is to copy the examples to a location outside Program Files, either manually or automatically by opening them via the IAR Information Center.

• Network licenses
  

  For network licenses, IAR Embedded Workbench for V850 version 5.10 and later require IAR License Server Tools version 2.16.2 or later. For more information, see technical note TN21842. The latest IAR License Server Tools are backwards compatible with previous IAR Embedded Workbench versions.



• Software updates from Renesas
  

  The latest device files, emulator firmware and other software updates from Renesas can be found here.

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