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Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.5.2



On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 16:21 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> GCC 4.5.2 has been released a couple of weeks ago, so I have updated the 
> patches for the MiNT target. As usual, I have built the binaries of the 
> cross-compiler for Cygwin and Ubuntu 32-bit, they are available here:
> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/
> 
> This new version is only the official bugfix from the previous one. 
> Especially, it fixes the GCC bug 45052 about the volatile attribute on 
> struct members. I hit that bug when compiling EmuTOS, but I believe it could 
> occur very rarely, probably only on OS/kernel stuff.
> 
> So binutils 2.21 + GCC 4.5.2 should be considered more reliable than 
> previous versions (which were already very reliable).

Vincent,

How is the binutils patch going to get it into upstream sources ?

As it'd be good to start the GCC patch too.

Thanks,

Alan.