Dear Wolfgang:

Am 27.10.14 19:59 schrieb(en) Wolfgang Denk:
I have to admit that I am not in a position yet to give any recommendations 
based on deeper knowledge or understanding; I cannot even tell if the observed 
effects are known GCC bugs, or if the fact that the same effects are no longer 
present in 4.9.1 is because a bug was detected and fixed, or just by pure 
chance.

O.k., got your point...

THis applies at least to U-Boot and Kernel, or more generaly to all kinds of 
code where you take special efforts when arranging things like the stack layout 
and/or the image linking.

I see...

I can only say that I currently use gcc 4.7.x (from ELDK 5.4) for all 
production builds where I need working code, resp. gcc 4.9.1 (what will become 
ELDK v5.7) for testing.

This is just my $ 0.02.  Your mileage may vary.

Which is actually *really* helpful, thanks a lot!  I used ELDK 4.2 happily for 
years, and was forced to move when the kernel starting with 3.2.50-something 
failed to compile with it.  My 5200 still u-boots with a /very/ old 4.2 build 
(never saw a reason why I should re-compile perfectly working code).

For me, kernel and user space /seem/ to work with the 5.5.2 builds.  I only saw 
some strange effects in user space after the update (delayed or lost signals 
between processes), though, which (IIRC) were not visible in the 4.2 builds, 
and which I blamed to me being too dumb (which is probably the case anyway).

I think your approach is perfectly right, so I'll downgrade to 5.4...

Thanks again,
Albrecht.

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