Moving to GCC 4.9

[Chris Johns]

On 19/09/2014 9:17 pm, Joel Sherrill wrote:
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> On September 19, 2014 12:00:26 AM CDT, Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>> On 18/09/14 23:47, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Is it possible to move all platforms to GCC 4.9.x?
>>>
>>> If not, which ones have issues and do these issues
>>> have GCC PRs filed?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> The PowerPC build issues have been fixed.  Also the C++ problem with
>> GCC 4.9
>> for SMP configurations is fixed.
>
> So we should move to the latest GCC 4.9 release?
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> We can discuss whether it makes sense to wait until my newlib inttypes.h work is done. Then we only make one tool bump.
>
> Newlib should be making monthly tarball snapshots starting in October per our request so that may be a good point to bump both.
>

I will start the process of moving to 4.9.

Chris