SPE configuration in GCC

[E. Weddington]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> Mark Mitchell wrote:
>
>> David Edelsohn wrote:
>>
>>>>>>>> Mark Mitchell writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark> As a secondary issue, it would be nice to have a GCC-wide 
>>> policy about Mark> whether "target-elf" should support all variants 
>>> of a chip, or just Mark> some.  Based on my knowledge of users, I'd 
>>> suggest that it should Mark> support all variants.
>>>
>>>     No objection.
>>
>>
>>
>> Any thoughts from the broader community?
>
>
> All variants, please. Users want things to "just work",


Agreed. At least for the avr folks...

> and that's
> easier to manage if they can just specify an option to choose their
> chip, rather than doing configure/make incantations, which is harder
> to get right for embedded. I would go so far as to say that the
> ability to avoid special configs is more important for embedded users
> than compile time.
>
>
Agreed. Witness Dan Kegel's crosstool:
<http://kegel.com/crosstool/>

Eric