Does CCS have some key word to define build data and time?

Matthias Lasch said:

Hey, I have used __TIME__ and __DATE__ in my projects for making the firmware show exact compile time. Now that I have updated my CCS from 5.1 to 5.3 it throws an error "Symbol '__DATE__' could not be resolved ...Semantic Error". Same project could be compiled with CCS V5.1 withour errors. Anything changed?

I believe that for some reason the compiler is having difficulty determining what the date & time is on the machine you are using.   The compiler folks may have some thoughts so I will move this post to their forum.

-Lori

Matthias Lasch said:

"Symbol '__DATE__' could not be resolved

The __DATE__ preprocessor symbol should be replaced with a constant string like "May 6 2013" (quotes included).  For reasons unknown, this is not happening.  Try add the compiler flag --gen_acp_raw and then inspect the resulting .rl file.  Hopefully, the problem will be obvious at that point.  This is documented in the section named Generating a Raw Listing File in the C2000 compiler manual.

Thanks and regards,

-George

Please show us the exact text of the error message; cut-and-paste it here if possible, use a screen capture if necessary.

Matthias Lasch said:

Now that I have updated my CCS from 5.1 to 5.3 it throws an error "Symbol '__DATE__' could not be resolved ...Semantic Error".

Can you confirm if the error you are seeing is a semantic error from CCS (reported by the CDT indexer) or a compiler error? If it is a compiler error, it will be reported in the CCS build console and Problems view. I suspect you are referring to an indexer error. If so, could you try opening a new workspace and import your project into it and see if the error persists?

Please see thread with a similar semantic error issue: http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/t/188055.aspx

My error message shows in the Problems view:

my code is:

debug_txString("\rcreated ");

debug_txString(__DATE__);

debug_txByte(SPACE);

debug_txString(__TIME__);

debug_txByte(CR);

Thanks for any help.

OK, I have activated raw output, as you recommended. BTW, It is the MSP430 compiler I am using. In the raw file I see following output:

N debug_txString("\rcreated ");

X usciA3_txString("\rcreated ");

N debug_txString(__DATE__);

X usciA3_txString("May  7 2013"); N

 debug_txByte(SPACE);

X usciA3_txByte(0x20); N

 debug_txString(__TIME__);

X usciA3_txString("11:34:12");

N debug_txByte(CR);

X usciA3_txByte(0x0D);

Why do I get this error message, when __DATE__ and __TIME__ can be resolved?

I can see that __DATE__ is getting replaced by a string, as expected.  I have no idea why you are getting a diagnostic.  Please take a screenshot and attach it to your next post.

Thanks and regards,

-George

Here's a little screenshot:

Yeah, this works great for me! (I was very glad that CCS Project import also took over my svn tags)