Alan Hourihane wrote:
I'm wondering if we should start sending the patches upstream so we can keep the patchset smaller for future releases ??
Sure ! It would be the best. However, I think there is one problem for that (but no definite proof).The GCC team tries to get rid of the a.out object file format, and we still use it. So I don't think the GCC team will accept our patches, even if we work hard to keep them up to date.
The good news is that the MiNT patch for GCC is absolutely not complicated (in opposition of the binutils one), it is mainly one clean configuration file plus minor insertions. Everything is clean, done in the normal GCC way.
So that is another good reason to switch to the ELF object file format ! -- Vincent Rivière