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From: Frank Pagliughi <fpagliughi@mindspring.com>
To: Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk>
Cc: ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F197D15.2020700@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F15A57E.3090608@siva.com.mk>

On 01/17/2012 11:44 AM, Ilija Kocho wrote:
> On 17.01.2012 17:09, Stanislav Meduna wrote:
>> On 17.01.2012 10:36, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
>>
>>> 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).
>> Do you happen to have more details on this - versions, flags used,
>> example to reproduce...?
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Optimize-Options.html says
>>
>>    -Os enables all -O2 optimizations that do not typically increase
>>    code size. It also performs further optimizations designed
>>    to reduce code size.
>>
>> it would be good to know whether the problems come from -O2 (which
>> would be a major problem) or from these further optimizations.
>
> I am compiling with default eCos options (that include -O2). Haven't 
> noticed a problems so far.
>
>
> Ilija
>
It would be pretty cool if we made a script that downloaded and built 
the eCos GNU tools for the current "official" version. Add the script to 
the source control. That way we'd all have a good starting point when 
upgrading personal tool chains. And, while we're at it, update the 
ancient directions on the web site on how to build a tool chain:
     http://ecos.sourceware.org/build-toolchain.html

Frank

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-20 14:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-13 17:01 Ilija Kocho
2012-01-13 18:54 ` Bernard Fouché
2012-01-13 19:39   ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-13 19:09 ` Frank Pagliughi
2012-01-13 19:45   ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-14 10:22 ` John Dallaway
2012-01-14 16:02   ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 17:36     ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-15 18:42       ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 21:39         ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-23  1:01           ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21         ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23  1:07           ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21         ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-16 15:20         ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-16 20:43           ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-16 21:11             ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17  9:58               ` Bernard Fouché
2012-01-17 10:38                 ` Paul Beskeen
2012-01-17 12:28                   ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-23  0:59     ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-14 16:25   ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23  1:13     ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-23 18:40       ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 19:29         ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-25 12:30         ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-25 20:59           ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-26 13:36             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-26 20:18               ` Ilija Kocho
2012-02-13 22:02           ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Ilija Kocho
2012-02-20 16:00             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-02-20 20:45               ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-02 16:36             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-03 13:32               ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-04  0:10                 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 17:49                   ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-04 23:08                     ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 19:37                   ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing John Dallaway
2012-03-04 23:47                     ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-05  8:00                       ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:51                         ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 11:58                       ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-07 13:01                         ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-07 13:39                           ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:13                         ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:43                           ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-16 15:05                             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-08 17:28                         ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-09  9:39                           ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-09 17:15                             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-10 17:16                           ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:12                             ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 13:31                               ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 14:16                                 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-13 17:47                                   ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-15  8:50                                     ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 14:50                                       ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-17 20:58                                         ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 16:44                                       ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-03-18 19:10                                   ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 [Was Re: eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing] Ilija Kocho
2012-04-04 12:57                                     ` Lambrecht Jürgen
2012-04-04 13:18                                       ` Ilija Kocho
2012-05-31  8:42                                         ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 and link time optimization Bernard Fouché
2012-03-05  8:30                     ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05  8:56                       ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05  9:50                         ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05  9:55                           ` Anders Montonen
2012-03-05 14:20                             ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05 10:16                           ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-05 12:56                             ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-03 12:58             ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17  9:37 ` Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6 Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:10   ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-17 16:25     ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:45     ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-20 14:42       ` Frank Pagliughi [this message]

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