Directing printf output to my own LCD display using CCSv5 for stellaris

I suspect that CCS does something similar, but I'll have to defer to the CCS team on this (or their documentation).  You should be able to define your own putchar function that redirects the output to whatever interface you choose.  If you can't find an answer in the CCS help, try posting the question in the CCS forum.  

I had posted this on the CCS forum but for some reason they moved this here. So far I have been able to discover that one way to do this would be to add LCD as a device and implement functions open,close,read,write etc for this device and then convert my printf's to fprintf's. Whilst I don't have any problems in implementing  these functions  I would still like to use printf for my display I/O instead of fprintf if at all possible.

Regards

I bet they moved you here because they saw "LCD" and freaked out :)

The real question that needs to be answered is how to retarget printf in the CCS environment, which they should be able to answer.  How you get it to the LCD is more MCU-dependent, obviously.  You are correct that you'll need a method to open, close read and write the LCD interface if you want to access it.  Once those functions are implemented, you create your putchar (or whatever) function and make calls to your LCD driver so that it displays a single character on the screen.

This problem is solved. See http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Tips_for_using_printf