[oe] [PATCH] gcc: introduce version 4.5.2

[Khem Raj]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:21 AM, Andreas Oberritter
<obi at opendreambox.org> wrote:
> On 12/10/2010 03:54 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Eric Bénard <eric at eukrea.com> wrote:
>>> - based on gcc-4.5.2-RC-20101208 (svn 167585)
>>> - without linaro patches (which seem to be the root of
>>> problems when compiling at least on armv4 and armv5) :
>>>        - samba 3.2.15 or 3.3.9 : http://tinderbox.openembedded.net/public/logs/task/8666826.txt
>>>        - samba 3.5.6 : http://pastebin.com/yuiYX2CM
>>>
>>
>> as discussed on IRC may be we should try to find the faulty patch in
>> current gcc 4.5 linaro patches we have.
>
> I don't think that we need another svn-based pre-release recipe for gcc.
> But I would still prefer to have a recipe for gcc 4.5.2 once it's
> released, because I'd like to be able to pin a stable version with only
> few required patches and Linaro only cares about ARM while I do not.
>

We should avoid creating recipes for every minor release. As we see
minor release only contain bug fixes.
agreed. If you dont care about linaro thats fine. Would you prefer a
gcc which is widely used or just used by you
hence supported only by you. My point it more common we use better we
have the support for it and community as a whole gets benefitted. If
linaro patches dont
harm your case negatively would you still be averse to them ? Do you
have some cases where they created regressions compile time or run
time or degraded the performance ?
that will be interesting.

why do you think gcc-4.5.2 will be more stable then say gcc-4.5.2 +
patches from upstream 4.5 branch

What advantage do you see of having a vanilla gcc without linaro patches ?

> Regards,
> Andreas
>
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