Re: [Cegcc-devel] Porting cegcc changes to latest version of cegcc

[Vincent R. <fo...@sm...>]

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:45:51 -0400
wrote:
>> > I also thought about updating cegcc, but decided against it because I
>> > found merging/rebasing with Subversion too cumbersome.  Thought about
>> > doing it cleanly with git (import gcc svn with all its history, copy
>> > cegcc on top, rebase on latest gcc) - this way, we could easily
>> > extract separate patches from cegcc, and submit them to gcc.
>> 
>> I won't go into a discussion about which version management system to
>> use,
>> I know too little of the differences between them. I doubt that
>> subversion,
>> or even cvs, give you much less useful support here.
>> 
>> Basically, take a diff between 4.4.0 and (somewhere before my DLL
>> changes) and you should be up and running quickly.
>> 
> 
> Hi Danny,
> I tried to do the merge into gcc tags/release_4_5_0 mearged all
conflicts,
> made a couple of changes, but the end result is discouraging.
> First of all, if I tried my simple test related to alignment, I see that
> the 4.5.0 cegcc does not align stack variables, the other big issue is
that
> it still has double size dlls full of zeros.
> 
> I tried to check your changes related to 6.1 dll, and these changes are
> really small (two commits only). I tried to comment them out but the
result
> was still the same and did not have any effect.
> Maybe I didn't do something correctly... or maybe your change didn't
> actually have that negative effect. Are you sure that because of your
> change you get that problem?
> thanks
> 
> 

Hi,

Just for information, when I was still using actively cegcc and watching
this ML
I think Pedro Alves made a patch for gcc-4.5.
Please try to find it in the archives and if you cannot find it I will
try.

Regards