From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Fri Jun 5 10:54:45 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] GCC 4.4.0 for ColdFire From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint In-Reply-To: <4A28E981.6060902@freesbee.fr> References: <4A285D9C.4000105@freesbee.fr> <1244193372.17139.0.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <4A28E981.6060902@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:49:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1244213353.28464.2.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.5 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n55Esb9H020373 On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:46 +0200, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > > Very useful for me Vincent. I'll start Gentoo on Coldfire soon. > > Hehehe... I had that in mind ;-) > Since Gentoo is source based, you just have to change the CPU option to > produce a full distribution optimized for that CPU :-) Exactly. > > I'd love to get your binutils & gcc patches upstream. > > Me too, but as I said earlier, we should probably switch to the ELF > object file format first, because GCC people look at a.out with a very > bad eye (I may be wrong). The only big problem is to embed ELF debugging > information (DWARF2 ?) into the PRG files for source debugging. I never > looked at that. O.k. Maybe we need to determine if a.out did get stripped out first. > > Thanks Vincent for this excellent work! > > Thanks, Alan. > > NB: Currently nobody has tested the ColdFire binaries on a real > ColdFire, so we don't know if it really works. Didier will make tests > this week-end. Will test this weekend too. Alan.