GCC 7.1 Released

[Chris Johns]

On 12/05/2017 18:39, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> 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:
>> 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?
>

Sorry I do not have any detail. I am sure Joel can provide some when he 
is online and has some time.

I think all he did was build all the BSPs with tests and saw some new 
failures.

Chris