On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 1:02 AM, Graeme Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:27:50 +0200 > Robert Schuster <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> Angstrom's default GCC is 4.3.3 for ARM. Unfortunately that version >> lacks atomic intrinsics support for the very same architecture >> (__sync_synchronize and friends). The support is available from 4.4.x >> onwards but a patch exists in Ubuntu's GCC that adds the intrinsics to >> the earlier GCC version. I would like add that patch to our GCC 4.3.x >> (all of them so there is not suddenly a feature missing when one >> changes from one microversion to another). This has the potential for >> drastic effects on other recipes because a lot of programs (e.g. >> pulseaudio, llvm) check for the availability of the intrinsics and >> make use of them in that case. >> >> I ask for comments here because I would also like to see this change >> move into OE stable later on. (The use case is to get OpenJDK with the >> Shark JIT compiler [llvm-based] to run on the bug20 hardware). >> >> Regards, >> Robert > > This sounds like it would require a DISTRO_PR bump on the Angstrom side
why a DISTRO_PR bump. ? Just update the libgcc > which I am fine with, but we need to synchronize so there are enough > Angstrom developers to re-fill the feeds on bump day. > > Otherwise I think this is a very good idea. > > Graeme > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
