On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:54:07 -0700 Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > Did you miss the "This has the potential for drastic effects..." bit? Graeme _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
