[MiNT] Re[2]: GCC 4.4.0 cross-compiler available

["ggn (HOL)" <ggn@hol.gr>]

Hello Vincent,

Monday, April 27, 2009, 9:16:00 PM, you wrote:

> 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 !

Guys,

I just read this from http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html:

Support  for  a  number  of  older systems and recently unmaintained or untested
target  ports  of  GCC  has  been  declared obsolete in GCC 4.4. Unless there is
activity  to  revive  them,  the  next  release  of  GCC will have their sources
permanently *removed*.

The following ports for individual systems on particular architectures have been
obsoleted:

-Generic a.out on IA32 and m68k (i[34567]86-*-aout*, m68k-*-aout*)
-Generic  COFF  on  ARM,  H8300,  IA32, m68k and SH (arm-*-coff*, armel-*-coff*,
h8300-*-*, i[34567]86-*-coff*, m68k-*-coff*, sh-*-*). This does not affect other
more  specific  targets  using the COFF object format on those architectures, or
the more specific H8300 and SH targets (h8300-*-rtems*, h8300-*-elf*, sh-*-elf*,
sh-*-symbianelf*, sh-*-linux*, sh-*-netbsdelf*, sh-*-rtems*, sh-wrs-vxworks).
-2BSD on PDP-11 (pdp11-*-bsd)
-AIX 4.1 and 4.2 on PowerPC (rs6000-ibm-aix4.[12]*, powerpc-ibm-aix4.[12]*)
-Tuning  support  for  Itanium1  (Merced)  variants.  Note  that  code tuned for
Itanium2 should also run correctly on Itanium1.

I think it would be best to act fast on this...

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Best regards,
 ggn                            mailto:ggn@hol.gr