<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Sebastian Huber <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de" target="_blank">sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">----- Am 19. Jul 2018 um 17:53 schrieb joel <a href="mailto:joel@rtems.org">joel@rtems.org</a>:<br>
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> Hi<br>
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> Just curious if it was time to bump binutils to 2.31<br>
> and gcc to 8.1 (or 8.2 when out) for the targets<br>
> that we can.<br>
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</span>How does this get us closer to a RTEMS 5.1 release? At least for ARM and PowerPC it is a bit of work to upgrade to GCC 8+. I would do this after the release.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't have any idea except that it means the GCC we pick has a longer support life left.</div><div>Chris should comment but he is expected to be largely offline until late next week.</div><div><br></div><div>I see 88 tickets in process or new so there are lots of hold ups at the moment.</div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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An update to Binutils 2.31.1 is fine. It is already on my todo list, since it is required for the RISC-V tool chain consolidation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does a GCC bump help RISC-V?</div><div><br></div><div>--joel </div></div><br></div></div>