Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... > On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:07:09PM +1000, David McCullough wrote: > > > > Jivin Jun Sun lays it down ... > > > > > > This might be a dumb question, but have we considered moving to gcc4.x > > > for uclinux? Any pro's and con's? What would be the effort to do so? > > > > Depending on the target, some of us already are using it. > > > > We definately build x86 and arm targets with 4.2.1 at the moment, no > > problems really, compiler is a bit pickier, but then we have fixed > > most packages to build ok in the latest dists. > > > > Which toolchain are you using?
gcc-4.2.1 binutils-2.17 glibc-2.3.6 > My understanding is that the latest > uclinux dist still uses gcc 3.4. It uses arm-linux-*, or i386-linux-*, and doesn't care too much either way. There's nothing wrong with continuing to use a gcc-3.4 based tool chain if it is doing what you want. My advice, if you don't know why you need a new toolchain, you don't need it. > What are the pro's and con's of moving gcc 4? pros: better error/warning detection and possibly better optimisations cons: better error/warning detection Sometimes older apps will fail to build with a newer toolchain. Cheers, Davidm -- David McCullough, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ph:+61 734352815 Secure Computing - SnapGear http://www.uCdot.org http://www.snapgear.com _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by [email protected] To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
