GCC 7.1 Released

[Sebastian Huber]

On 12/05/17 10:35, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 15:56, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 11/05/17 17:29, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>> Ok to
>>>
>>> On May 11, 2017 5:09 AM, "Sebastian Huber"
>>> <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>>> <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hello,
>>>
>>>     if someone wants to use GCC 7.1 for RTEMS 4.12, then the RSB
>>>     should be updated accordingly as soon as possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> Chris posted a patch to bump gcc and binutils. He just needs to push 
>>> it.
>>
>> I didn't see the patch. According to
>>
>
> I have not posted anything.
>
>> contrib/download_prerequisites
>>
>> we should use
>>
>> gmp='gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2'
>> mpfr='mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2'
>> mpc='mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz'
>> isl='isl-0.16.1.tar.bz2'
>>
>> for GCC 7.
>>
>
> I talked to Joel late his time yesterday and he is reporting increased 
> code size and as a result some tests are not fitting into the target. 
> Rather than head on into the change we think it is better to step back 
> and visit it again after we have a release. What do you think? 

A code size increase would be not an issue for me if its in the range of 
a small percent range. However, we should identify this and create a GCC PR.

Gaisler suggested to use GCC 7.1. Did Gaisler observe some significant 
code size changes on SPARC?

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