3.2.3 using the 3.3 directory is the only one that has consistently worked for me.
3.3.2 using the 3.4 directory is very broken and unsupported.
Dmitry recently reported that 3.4.1 using the current directory produces larger code for reasons unknown. I use binutils-2.15 patched for msp430f161x and compile gcc from gcc-core. I don't bother with gdb at all.

I agree with Steven.

Garst

Steven Johnson wrote:

Some documentation somewhere would be good. We get this question a lot.

Its been a while since I rebuilt the tools, so I dont know the answer to the question. Once I got a stable version that did what I needed, I stopped upgarding. Now I wouldnt know which is the 'best' 'most stable' version anymore either. Having to use the gcc-3.4 directory to patch gcc-3.3.2 is far from intuitive. What about not only the readme, but renaming the directories to actually be logical, and not a historical and confusing accident.

It makes me woder how many people have tried to build the compiler and given up in disgust, because they had mis matched patches to gcc source. It might explain why Ive heard from a number of people that this compiler is unusable crap. which is not true, and I dispute it. But their response is always 'well i could never get it to work'. Dont forget, for every one person who posts to the list that they couldnt get it to work, there are probably 10 others who either arent subscribed or havent posted their failures to achieve anything meaningful (probably due to fear of ridicule).

Steven

Svein E. Seldal wrote:

Hi,

In the CVS server on sourceforge, there are a lot of different patches for different versions of gcc.

What is considered the most stable and "best" version of those? I'm using the CVS's gcc-3.4/ patch against gcc-3.3.2, but I'm always running into a couple of bugs caused by the compiler.

What's the status of the gcc-current? And what gcc version is it indended to be patched against? (Tip: Maybe we should add a little readme in each of the gcc patch directories telling what gcc version it should be patched against.)



Regards,
Svein Seldal


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