Re: Update ARM EABI version number in GCC

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>]

On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:08 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 01:04 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> > > The ARM EABI specifies EABI version 5 for e_flags; version 4, the
> > > value currently used by GCC by default, was used in prerelease
> > > versions of the ABI only.  This patch makes the default correspond to
> > > the released ABI version.  The corresponding gas patch is
> > > <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2009-01/msg00168.html>.
> > > 
> > > Tested with no regressions with cross to arm-none-eabi.  OK to commit?
> > > 
> > 
> > Will this force users to upgrade their GAS?  If so, has a suitable GAS
> > been released by the FSF?
> 
> The required binutils support for using this version went in with 
> <http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils-cvs/2006-03/msg00052.html>, so is in 
> 2.17, 2.18 and 2.19.  (The gas patch I referenced above changes gas's 
> default so is only relevant for files being assembled directly without 
> going through the compiler spec I'm changing in this GCC patch.)

That's fine then..
R.