Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-19 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Laurent GUERBY writes: > arm need some work for Ada to support "ZCX" exceptions, after asking > on the gcc@ list I got some people proposal and advices on how to proceed. > I tried to build 4.4 with sjlj for arm but exceptions did not work, this was > a few monthes ago so may be it's better now. >

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-19 Thread Laurent GUERBY
> > * Ada in Debian Squeeze > > > > As far as GCC is concerned, my plans are (tentatively) to: > > > > - enable support for multilib (this support is new in the Ada parts of GCC > > 4.4). > > - provide at least one cross-compiler package. The first target I will try > > to support is arm. > > > > O

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-13 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Selon Hector Oron: > Hello Vincent, > >> That said, I have absolutely no idea if it is possible or not to >> allow the user to choose its cross toolchain (but I'm sure that this >> would be more difficult to implement than your proposition). > > Yes, that is going to be very hard to do, let's thi

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-13 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Vincent, > That said, I have absolutely no idea if it is possible or not to allow > the user to choose its cross toolchain (but I'm sure that this would be > more difficult to implement than your proposition). Yes, that is going to be very hard to do, let's think about it. Coding gcc's debi

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Hector Oron wrote: >> If this is right, I do not really see the advantage to divertion with >> respect to conflicting packages. > > The idea on divert libgcc is for cross toolchains. I work on an > i386/amd64 machine and i have many ARM targets, let's say i have > processors which requires

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-13 Thread Hector Oron
> If this is right, I do not really see the advantage to divertion with > respect to conflicting packages. The idea on divert libgcc is for cross toolchains. I work on an i386/amd64 machine and i have many ARM targets, let's say i have processors which requires floating point emulated by software

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-12 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hector Oron wrote: > Hello again, > > I would like to comment just an idea for a bit discussion, from the > point of view of cross toolchains. During FOSDEM we had been > discussing about supporting diferent configurations of cross > compilers, for example, for arm architecture, you might want s

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-11 Thread Hector Oron
Hello again, I would like to comment just an idea for a bit discussion, from the point of view of cross toolchains. During FOSDEM we had been discussing about supporting diferent configurations of cross compilers, for example, for arm architecture, you might want softfloat or not, turn on some e

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-09 Thread Ludovic Brenta
Hector Oron writes: > Hello Ludovic, > > I would be interested on making cross toolchains to build. I have > already been doing some work on them. > > Please, just let me know what the changes you are doing with > repositories or i would not mind to use yours. I just mostly submit > diffs from

Re: Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-09 Thread Hector Oron
Hello Ludovic, I would be interested on making cross toolchains to build. I have already been doing some work on them. Please, just let me know what the changes you are doing with repositories or i would not mind to use yours. I just mostly submit diffs from apt sources to the bug system. >

Plans for GCC in Squeeze

2009-02-09 Thread Ludovic Brenta
I met Matthias Klose at FOSDEM on Saturday and he expressed the desire to talk about plans for GCC in Debian Squeeze. Unfortunately we did not have an opportunity to do so. Therefore I would like to have this discussion on this here list; if we need to have a face-to-face meeting, maybe I could b