Aurélien Larcher wrote:
Hello,
about 2.5 years ago I started playing with more recent versions of GCC:
the intent was to support illumos by providing a testing environment for
new compilers.
I added GCC 5.x in Aug 2016, GCC 6.x in Jan 2017, GCC 7.x in April 2017,
then GCC 8.x in Jan 2018.
With the help of Rich Lowe illumos patches were rebased to allow
building illumos and userland wih the same compiler: GCC 5/6 in Feb 2017
, GCC 7 in April 2017, GCC 8 in Jan 2018.
Dates are a good way to measure that many things that happened since the
first stages.
Thanks to Toomas who relentlessly fixed illumos-gate with gcc-7 we are
now able to build it (I have been running for almost a year
cherry-picking his patches on the go).
Rich finally pushed GCC 7.3.0-il-1 as the new candidate for the default
illumos compiler:
https://github.com/illumos/gcc/releases
This is a great achievement, congratulations to Toomas, Rich, and
everybody involved.
I will add you to my congratulation list.
A shadow compilaton with gcc-7 was added recently to illumos-gate to
identify possible issues introduced by RTIs.
Our gcc-7 paclage will be updated soon with the il-1 patchset (same
patchset except one patch has been improved by John Levon): gcc
7.3.0-OI-2 will become gcc 7.3.0-il-1.
Are these patches to gcc to be pushed upstream ?
(or are they only required for compiling kernel code ?)
IOW how about building a cross-compiler for developing
user level code ?
Jean-Pierre
We still provide testing build based on gcc-8 for userland, and gcc-7
for illumos-gate:
https://pkg.openindiana.org/gcc-next/
While illumos-gate does not build yet with gcc-8 the patchset has been
around for a while: looking forward to the next GCC 8.x.0-il.
Kind regards,
Aurélien
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