On 09/17/2013 08:12 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
Committed to the head.
Is this too radical to also go on the 4.8 branch?
We would need to discuss it on the RTEMS side but it
only impacts us if the multilib is there for sparc-elf
on 4.8.
Not quite. The problem is not GCC-4.8 vs. GCC-4.9, the problems are in
RTEMS.
Why? sparc-rtems*gccs < 4.8 doesn't support -mcpu=leon3 and thus will
abort when -mcpu=leon3 will be used.
I.e. you
a) CANNOT use -mcpu=leon3 in RTEMS's bsp_specs and in RTEMS cpukit,
until the toolchains are guaranteed to support it.
or
b) MUST backport -mcpu=leon3 to GCC-4.8
In other words, if you are sure leon3 works with GCC-4.8, you'd better
off backporting this to GCC-4.8. If there are known bugs in
GCC-4.8/leon3, you'd better of not using -mcpu=leon3 in RTEMS.
To my knowledge, GCC up to 4.8.1 doesn't support -mcpu=leon3 at all, but
I don't know about the status on current gcc-4_8-branch.
Ralf
