Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6

[Tomas Frydrych]

Hi Ilija,

On 13/01/12 17:00, Ilija Kocho wrote:
> Regarding this, I state my wish that we move to the latest stable GCC
> release, that is at present rel. 4.6.2, accompanied with respective
> binutils. I have tested binutils 2.21 but in meantime 2.22 has been
> released. Of course, the list wouldn't be complete without the latest GDB.

Some of the more recent gccs were not producing usable binaries on some
platforms (including arm) with the -Os option. I do not know if this is
the case with 4.6.2, and I don't think ecos uses -Os by default, but it
is probably worth checking whether this works (and at least documenting
somewhere if it does not).

Tomas