Re: GNUpro vs GCC

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On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Kai Ruottu wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 08:38:01 +0200
> Vermeulen Jan <Jan.Vermeulen@siemens.atea.be> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I got a small question...
> > Recently I have downloaded the GNUpro toolkit for XScale processor from the
> > Intel Devellopers website.
> > 
> > With gcc I also made an xscale-elf crosscompiler and i got the same binaries
> > as those in the package that i downloaded.
> > 
> > I am just wondering what is so different about GNUpro in respect to our GCC
> > ?
> 
>  The GNUPro-sources used to include more supported CPUs, more support for some
> processor variations, more features like 'initialization prioritization' for
> C++-constructors, more supported targets like 'mips64vr4100/4300/5000/5400-elf'
> etc.  And of course better docs and support (after paying for it).
> 
>  Currently one easily sees the Mitsubishi 'd10v' CPU-support being missing in
> the gcc-3.0, while the fr30 and d30v support was added there from GNUPro after
> gcc-2.95.x.  The now obsolete 'h8500' and 'z8k' CPUs were once supported in
> GNUPro, but the support never visited in GCC...

It seems like a violation of GPL the way I understand it - everything
beyond better docs and suport should be published.

> 
> Cheers, Kai
> 

Thanks,

Aleksey



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