[ECOS] gcc3

[Jonathan Larmour]

Fabrice Gautier wrote:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jonathan Larmour [ mailto:jlarmour@redhat.com ]
> > Subject: Re: [ECOS] gcc3
> >
> > Depends which target. Although I could ask: why do you want
> > to avoid 2.95?
> 
> 'cause gcc 3 has a new ARM backend ? (supposedly better...)
> 
> 'cause gcc 3.x will very soon generate Dwarf2 frame info (which mean you
> will be abble to debug optimized code which don't have frame pointer ... as
> soon as gdb support it - works in progress also)
> 
> 'cause i'm sure there is a lot of other things done better in 3

I'm just trying to deter people from using it if all they want is _any_
compiler. If they think it's worth going through a few extra hoops, then
that's okay :).
 
> 'cause we want to break eCos anyway :-)

Nah, eCos is *designed* to be breakable :-). [1]

Jifl

[1] Think "for (i=0;;i+=4) *i=1;"
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