RFC: ARM GCC changes

[Gedare Bloom]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
> Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>
>> On 09/25/2012 12:04 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/25/2012 10:54 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>>
>>>> This is an updated patch for the GCC 4.8. It renames the target
>>>> "arm-rtemseabi" to "arm-rtems" to bring the ARM tool chain back to the
>>>> standard RTEMS target pattern "$ARCH-rtems".
>>>
>>>
>>> As I tried to tell you several times before, I consider this step
>>>
>>> a) to be silly, because it raises abiguities to the "arm-rtems*"
>>> target tuple
>>> and breaks the clear distingtion between "arm-rtems" and
>>> "arm-rtemseabi*" we
>>> currently have.
>>
>>
>> We have only one ARM tool chain configuration in the current RTEMS
>> development version and this is arm-rtemseabi. The ARM tool chain is the
>> only exception to the $ARCH-rtems pattern. This is confusing and leads
>> to special cases in general support scripts. There is absolutely no
>> reason to have two ARM tool chain configuration for new versions of RTEMS.
>>
>
> +1
+1

>
> Please make the change and remove the ARM ABI mess we have. Sebastian,
> thanks for the patch.
>
> Chris
>
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