Linaro GCC 4.5 2010-11 released

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Hope
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the latest release of Linaro GCC 4.5. Linaro GCC 4.5 is the fourth release in the 4.5 series. Based off the latest GCC 4.5.1+svn164911, it includes many ARM-focused performance improvements and bug fixes. Interesting changes include: * Va

Backport criteria

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Hope
I've been going through the ChangeLog for the release and am having trouble justifying some of the changes brought in. In particular: * -fstrict-volatile-bitfields, which is more appropriate for bare metal/kernel code * Cortex-M4 support * C locale support in libstdc++-v3 The march/mcpu clean

Linaro GDB 7.2 2010.11-0 released

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Hope
The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the release of Linaro GDB 7.2. Linaro GDB 7.2 2010.11-0 is the second release in the 7.2 series. Based off the latest GDB 7.2, it includes a number of ARM-focused bug fixes and enhancements. This release concentrates on the GDB test suite

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Michael Hope
I agree on the approach. I'm concerned about moving over to SVN for a few reasons: duplication of accounts (however most of the WG already have or will need sourceware.org accounts), harder merging (with bzr you do a 'bzr merge lp:gcc' and it does a good, three way merge with trunk. Last time I u

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Ira Rosen
On 8 November 2010 20:30, Chung-Lin Tang wrote: > Still, I would like to see a 'linaro-trunk' branch under svn:// > gcc.gnu.org/svn/branches. It would actually serve a different purpose than > a LP branch; the LP GCC 4.6 would probably eventually turn into Linaro 4.6, > while a SVN branch would b

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Chung-Lin Tang
On 2010/11/8 下午 07:01, Andrew Stubbs wrote: Here's my proposal: * Create a new Launchpad branch for GCC 4.6. * Synchronize this branch with upstream regularly * once per week, perhaps. * Try to get upstream approval for all new patches in the usual way * on the understanding that

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Sandiford
Mark Mitchell writes: > On 11/8/2010 7:22 AM, Yao Qi wrote: >> In this situation, this LP GCC 4.6 branch can be regarded as our >> upstreams at that moment. >> >>> * Try to get upstream approval for all new patches in the usual way >>>* on the understanding that they won't be applied until s

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Mark Mitchell
On 11/8/2010 7:22 AM, Yao Qi wrote: > In this situation, this LP GCC 4.6 branch can be regarded as our > upstreams at that moment. > >> * Try to get upstream approval for all new patches in the usual way >>* on the understanding that they won't be applied until stage 1 >>* bug fixes are

Re: Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Yao Qi
On 11/08/2010 07:01 PM, Andrew Stubbs wrote: > Hi all, > > As you may or may not know, upstream GCC has now entered 'stage 3' of > it's development cycle. This will last until spring. > > This means that they are only accepting bug fixes and documentation > improvements. New features and any perf

Upstream GCC feature freeze

2010-11-08 Thread Andrew Stubbs
Hi all, As you may or may not know, upstream GCC has now entered 'stage 3' of it's development cycle. This will last until spring. This means that they are only accepting bug fixes and documentation improvements. New features and any performance improvements must wait until GCC 4.6 branches,