[ANNOUNCE] GCC 3.3.1 uClinux/ColdFire toolchain (20030725 snapshot)

[Dan Kegel]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> arm-elf was an easy pick for me since there it has a simulator in gdb
> and it's being used as the example in the combined tree tutorial ;-)

Right, but -elf target names seem to be reserved for embedded systems
without an OS.  I'm no expert, though.  Maybe you should take a poll...

>>It looks like the name arm-uclinux is in use, and makes more sense than
>>arm-elf, at least to me;
>>[...]
>>I'd expect m68k-uclinux to also be popular?
> 
> With the latest official uClinux toolchain (2.95.3 based), they were
> still using m68k-elf with several unclean tweaks in the header files.
> 
> I've built on top of that mess, but before I submit any patches
> touching the target configuration, I'll have to create the
> m68k-uclinux-elf myself.

Hmm.  The -elf in that case seems redundant.

> I've not yet figured out how to do it all over the toolchain, but
> looking at config.gcc it appears to be quite straightforward.

One of these days I have to submit patches to allow ppc405-*-*-* and ppc750-*-*-*,
I'm not really looking forward to it, but I guess now that I'm
running all the test suites, at least I have a chance of writing
a patch that doesn't break anything.

> I'll start porting those to HEAD when I've shaken out the remaining
> bugs on the stable branch.

You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar :-)
- Dan

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