Fwd: GCC 7.5 Status Report (2019-10-22)

[Chris Johns]

On 23/10/19 5:18 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 22/10/2019 14:45, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>> I would like to see most targets moved to newer major versions but I think at
>> least the PowerPC will want to bump for the upcoming gcc 7 release.
> 
> Yes. For all targets except powerpc I would directly move to GCC 10.

I am not sure about a change without some evidence there are no issues. Building
on all supported hosts would be a good start, test results on hardware even better.

>> Binutils has a new release and I think we also have changes to newlib to pick up.
> 
> Some problems on ARM were mentioned on the Binutils mailing list. I am not sure
> what the status is here.

Can binutils be upgraded?

>> For newlib, I'm caught up at the moment. Not sure about Sebastian.
> 
> I wait since one month for a Newlib patch approval.

Is this important to 5?

Chris