[OE-core] [PATCH] gcc-6.3: Backport patch to fix ICE on ARM

[Khem Raj]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Otavio Salvador
<otavio.salvador at ossystems.com.br> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Just having the upgrade available to the community is useful, even if
>>> there are no guarantees or testing. I've backporting gcc 6.3 into my
>>> morty branch as it fixes build issues with musl. Morty with gcc 6.3 is
>>> not a combination which was ever officially supported or tested
>>> upstream, but I very much appreciate the fact that upgrading gcc 6.2
>>> to 6.3 in morty only requires a few cherry-picks :-)
>>
>> I am open for if there are more like minded folks who think this will be a good
>> thing to have. so all listening please chime in
>
> I'd prefer for 2.5 time frame to drop gcc 6 as 2.4 can be seen as an
> upgrade path to it.

I think it probably it a fine idea to update it so it can be
cherry-picked for backport
to prior releases, if we do that cherry-pick officially or not can be
discussed later
then we can delete it. Usually we keep two versions of gcc available
to keep migration tail
if gcc8 comes out with in 2.5 release timeframe we might drop 6.x

Now on clang, I think thats a fine idea. We need some upvotes on
https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9417

>
> If possible I'd prefer to add clang to oe-core than support multiple
> versions of gcc.
>
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