Apple specific options: patch to include them in the current release gcc?

[Alexander Strange]

On Jan 27, 2005, at 10:18 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
> "Most important" has multiple interpretations. The full set of
> Apple's changes is rather large, but many of the bits are only
> needed to build OS X components, and not needed for applications
> using OS X APIs. As Mike mentioned, apple-ppc-branch in CVS is
> the compiler we're planning to have in Tiger, but at this point
> I think it only builds on Tiger; if you want a Panther compiler
> out of it, some configury work will likely be needed, or an
> updated assembler/linker.

I build apple-ppc-branch regularly on Panther using "the Apple way" in 
its readme; you do need an updated as/ld, which you can get from 
http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/odcctools/.