This makes explicit the String constructors that take numeric types and chars and removes the versions of concat() and operator=() and operator+() that accept numberic types.
It also replaces the operator bool() with a operator that converts to a function pointer. This allows for uses like "if (s)" but not "s + 123". See: http://www.artima.com/cppsource/safebool.html. This allowed removing the disambiguating operator+() functions and relying solely on StringSumHelper and anonymous temporaries once again.
Also, now treating unsigned char's like int when constructing Strings from them, i.e. String(byte(65)) is now "65" not "A". This is consistent with the new behavior of Serial.print(byte).
The operator bool() means that you could implicitly convert a String to a bool and then add it to it an int, for example. Which means our operator+ has to match exactly or it will be ambiguous.
Changing toLowerCase(), toUpperCase(), trim() and replace() to return void instead of a reference to the string that's just been changed. That way, it's clear that the functions modify the string they've been called on.
Now Serial.write() places characters in the transmit buffer, and the data register empty interrupt reads and transmit them. Based loosely on the implementation here: ftp://wookey.org.uk/arduino.
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=262
That is, there's now a pins/ directory in a platform, which includes multiple directories, each of which has its own pins_arduino.h. The boards.txt gets a new preferences, <BOARD>.build.pins, whose values is a sub-directory of the pins/ directory (possibly with a "platform:" prefix). That sub-directory is then placed in the include path during compilation.
Also, removing the inline version of digitalPinToTimer() (since we're not optimizing the functions that use it anyway). The noAnalogWrite() function is in wiring_analog.c, deriving from the previous turnOffPWM() which has moved from wiring_digital.c.
http://code.google.com/p/arduino/issues/detail?id=476
Factoring out the implementation of digitalWrite(), digitalRead(), and pinMode() into macros that can either be inlined (for constant pin numbers) or executed within a function (non-constant pins). Removing testing for timers on pins in digitalWrite(), digitalRead(), and pinMode(). Moving pin to port macros from pins_arduino.h to wiring.h.
Enabling INTERRUPT_CONTROL_ENDPOINT in the makefile so we don't miss control messages from Linux. Also deleted two unused USB events to save a few bytes of space (the Mega 2560 .hex is now exactly 4096 bytes).
David A. Mellis
amcewen
Tom Igoe