Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 and binary compatibility

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.demon.co.uk>]

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 18:48 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> > Hi Vincent,
> 
> Hello, Alan.
> 
> > One point is that you are still using mintlib 0.57.3, whereas I think
> > it's upto 0.57.6 or even 0.57.7 now.
> >
> > Will you be updating that ??
> 
> The MiNTLib needs some patching in order to be compatible with GCC 4 and 
> libstdc++-v3. Personally, I only use it for testing the binutils and GCC 
> patches. So the old version 0.57.3 is enough for me.

That's understandable.

> However, GCC 4.2.2 is now quite stable.

For me too. I've just compiled FreeMiNT CVS with it (with some patching)
and I'm running with that version right now :-)

> I would be happy to help the MiNTLib maintainers to make the MiNTLib 
> compatible with that compiler.
> Then I will surely use the latest version for my binary releases !
> 
> Someone is interested ?

I don't have CVS write access but I'm sure they'll review any patches
submitted. Submit them here.

Alan.