Re: eCos cross compiler questions [was: gcc 2.95 cross compiler]

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@cygnus.co.uk>]

William Gatliff wrote:
> Do the "enhancements" in the eCos-specific gcc show up in the gcc archives
> anywhere, or are they only being distributed via the eCos web page?
> 
> My question really is: is anyone else testing the new gcc features, other than
> eCos users?

Yes, these are standard gcc features now.
 
> Yes, but the eCos web page appears to have a typo.  On the page:
> 
> http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/install-linux.html
> 
> it says that you can build the Linux synthetic target with anything later than
> egcs-1.1.1.  To the contrary, I haven't been able to do this-- only the gcc
> sources listed on the web page recognize the -fvtable-gc and -fdata-sections
> options (and other new ones).

Hmm... that's unintentional, but in any case, these options aren't very
important for the synthetic target - all they do is reduce the size of
static executables. These options should definitely work in gcc-2.95, which
I heartily recommend.

> I'm going through the installation instructions line-by-line, and so far
> everything is working for me.  This is my first full day with eCos, though-- I'm
> not exactly an eCos power-user, yet...  [been doing the cross-compiler thing for a
> while now, though]

Join the ecos-discuss list if you need any more help
(http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/intouch.html). There's more eCos folks
that read things there than on crossgcc (unsurprisingly!).

Jifl
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