Hi Peter,
Peter Jansen wrote:
Hi All,
Working on gcc-4.0.2 and some changes I have had for gcc-3.2.3 etc, I
find that the files for gcc-3.2.3 are not the same as those in the
gcc-3.2.3 distribution. I assume this is because they are taken before
gcc-3.2.3 was released, while not really a problem, the files from the
gcc distribution only have minor changes and patched would work much
better.
So should we continue to maintain the files that are copied onto the
gcc distributions, or patch files that patch the gcc distribution? The
difference would be that instead of 'cp -a' all the files onto the
distribution 'patch -p 1 < patchfile' would be used.
I had put both into the CVS for gcc-4.0.2 but would, it be easier to
just put patches in and not the files? Files can be added using
patches also. Patches are easier to generate from the source tree than
separating out the files that have changed and including the hole file.
Patches would work better for example for the gcc-3.2.3 files that
need updating to get it to compile with gcc-4.x
Should I update the files in gcc-3.2.3 that are no longer current?
Ideas?
Can you explain what differences you find? The CVS patches for mspgcc
for 3.2.3 include some changes to 3.2.3 to make it compile with GCC >=
4.0.0. Are those the differences you are seeing?
I noticed you have started updating the patches for GCC 3.3. I think
this is pointless. We never obtained good results with 3.3, which is why
we stopped updating it for new devices.
Steve
