Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.0 for ColdFire

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

On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:46 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> 
> > Very useful for me Vincent. I'll start Gentoo on Coldfire soon.
> 
> Hehehe... I had that in mind ;-)
> Since Gentoo is source based, you just have to change the CPU option to
> produce a full distribution optimized for that CPU :-)

Exactly.

> > I'd love to get your binutils & gcc patches upstream.
> 
> Me too, but as I said earlier, we should probably switch to the ELF
> object file format first, because GCC people look at a.out with a very
> bad eye (I may be wrong). The only big problem is to embed ELF debugging
> information (DWARF2 ?) into the PRG files for source debugging. I never
> looked at that.

O.k. Maybe we need to determine if a.out did get stripped out first.

> > Thanks Vincent for this excellent work!
> 
> Thanks, Alan.
> 
> NB: Currently nobody has tested the ColdFire binaries on a real
> ColdFire, so we don't know if it really works. Didier will make tests
> this week-end.

Will test this weekend too.

Alan.