[avr-gcc-list] Problems with avr-gcc vers 3.0

[Maurizio Ferraris]

Hi,
I just switched to avr-gcc version 3.0 and successfully recompiled all my 
old code.
I even had a small reduction in code size.
The problem is that the code is not working anymore.
Looking around and trying to figure what happened, I came across this piece 
of code.
The delay routine is simply an empty loop from 0 to 4999. The 
implementation is something that I don't understand and I feel that it is 
wrong.
The counter seems to be initialized at 4999 and not at zero (ok, since it 
is not used inside the loop, it doesn't really matters), and it is 
decremented toward zero, but not by one, but by 625.
I used the packed installation found on avrfreaks for win32, and using the 
makefiles found in the gcctest.zip (I didn't dare change any switches ... I 
only added my files and include directories).
Is there something I must know?

 102:../Common/Util.c **** void delay(void)
 103:../Common/Util.c **** {
 104:../Common/Util.c ****   int counter;
 105:../Common/Util.c ****
 106:../Common/Util.c ****   for(counter = 0; counter < 5000; counter++)
 347 0104 87E8                  ldi r24,lo8(4999)
 348 0106 93E1                  ldi r25,hi8(4999)
 349                    .L35:
 350 0108 8157                  subi r24,lo8(-(-625))
 351 010a 9240                  sbci r25,hi8(-(-625))
 352 010c EAF7                  brpl .L35
 355 010e 0895                  ret
 107:../Common/Util.c ****     ;
 108:../Common/Util.c **** }

Thanks in advance.
Mau.

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