Re: [Cegcc-devel] cegcc with binutils 2.21.1

[Vincent T. <vin...@gm...>]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Max Kellermann <ma...@du...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have spent some time on rebasing the cegcc-binutils branch on
> upstream version 2.21.1.  That was a big knot which became smaller and
> smaller each time I rebased incrementally on a new release.
> Fortunately, many of the cegcc patches were merged upstream, and
> disappeared from my rebasing branch.
>
> I rebased on the git import hosted at http://repo.or.cz/w/binutils.git
>
> This is the result:
>
>
> http://git.xcsoar.org/cgit/max/cegcc-binutils.git/log/?h=2.21.1-experimental
>
> It's still very unclean, the commit messages describe changes that
> have disappeared, and more (documented) patches need to be separated
> out and submitted to upstream.  I don't understand those, because I've
> never read the binutils code before, and I've never written a linker
> script.  Does anybody want to comment, and help cleaning them up?
>
> One change that I havn't pushed over is the patch that relocates
> ".bss" to ".data".  This bloats the generated binaries for no visible
> advantage.  Who knows why this was added?  (It's a post-0.59 change)
>
> I'm not uploading binaries this time, because there was little
> interest in my other announcements previously.  I just want to make
> sure that nobody else wastes time by replicating my effort.  I might
> upload new binaries when my gcc 4.6 port is finished.
>

I'm still wondering if the project can't be integrated into mingw-w64. Any
opinion about that ?

Vincent Torri