Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6

[Jonathan Larmour]

On 15/01/12 21:39, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
> 
>> The third, Why we should avoid to say that eCos is also well known,
>> widely used OS?
>> ...
>> Look on that as a promotion eCos OS.
> 
> Does the specification of a target OS belong to a compiler at all?
> Is there anything the compiler itself does differently for eCos
> than for Linux or RTEMS (that is not covered by other flags)?
> If yes, go ahead. If not, frankly, I think that 'promotion' or
> 'others do it' is a bogus reason for hardcoding something into
> a compiler binary, so I'd only do this if there is a technical
> reason for it (IMHO of course).

Yes there are things the compiler does differently depending on the
runtime it's built with, but the compiler expects something that looks
like newlib, and eCos is close enough to that in enough ways that it
doesn't matter.

Jifl