Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.2.2 and binary compatibility

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

On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 20:42 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> >> 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'm VERY happy to know this :-) ! What a success story !
> You should submit your patches to the FreeMiNT developers. Most of the 
> times, GCC 4 is more strict than earlier versions, and may be useful to 
> find potentially dangerous code.

Yes, I'm definitely going to submit them here.

Frank - given that you are the maintainer of FreeMiNT - what's your
position on leaving gcc 2.95.3 finally behind and upgrading to GCC 4.2.2
for FreeMiNT kernel builds ?

Alan.