There are two begin methods, one which accepts just a baud rate and
uses the default bit settings and one which accepts both a baudrate and
a bit config. Previously, both of these contained a complete
implementation, but now the former just calls the latter, explicitely
passing the default 8N1 configuration.
Technically, this causes a small change: Before the UCSRC register was
untouched when calling begin(baud), now it is explicitely initialized
with 8N1. However, since this is the default configuration for at least
the Uno and the Mega (didn't check any others), probably for all avrs,
this shouldn't effectively change anything. Given that the Arduino
documentation also documents this as the default when none is passed,
explicitly setting it is probably a good idea in any case.
These functions do not modify the IPAddress object, but were not marked
as const. This meant that you could not do:
void set_ip(const IPAddress& ip) {
uint32_t copy = ip;
}
Since calling operator uint32_t() on ip would discard the constness of
the reference.
"runtime.hardware.path" now contains the path to the hardware folder
of the currently selected board and "runtime.platform.path" the path
to the specific platform.
This should fix#1176 and #1761.
On later versions of avr-libc, prog_char is deprecated. In 0acebeeff4
the one occurence of prog_char was replaced by "char PROGMEM", which is
not entirely correct (PROGMEM is supposed to be an attribute on a
variable, not on a type, even though this is how things work in older
libc versions). However, in 1130fede3a a few new occurences of
prog_char are introduced, which break compilation on newer libc versions
again.
This commit changes all these pointer types to use the PGM_P macro from
<avr/pgmspace.h>. This macro is just "const char *" in newer libc
versions and "const prog_char *" in older versions, so it should always
work.
References #795
The new function just calls Print::write(const uint8_t *, size_t), but
this allows writing out a buffer of chars (without having to learn about
casts).
