Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6

[Jonathan Larmour]

On 23/01/12 18:40, Ilija Kocho wrote:
> 
> I suppose that it is related to infamous Cortex-M LDRD bug
> http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka8542.html
> 
> for which control has been provided in GCC 4.4
> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.4/changes.html
> I have rejected this patch, but my assumption may be wrong. Please confirm.

You are spot on. That patch is indeed now obsolete for newer tools. It's
funny to think that AFAIK it was in eCos (well, specifically,
nickg@ecoscentric) it was first discovered when doing the port.

Jifl