Tool versions for RTEMS 6.1 release?

[Sebastian Huber]

On 30.06.23 19:18, Kinsey Moore wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:58 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org 
> <mailto:joel at rtems.org>> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>     On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:26 AM Sebastian Huber
>     <sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de
>     <mailto:sebastian.huber at embedded-brains.de>> wrote:
> 
>         Hello,
> 
>         it seems the RTEMS 6.1 release is getting closer. We should
>         think about
>         the tool versions for the release.
> 
>         For GCC, my preferred choice would be GCC 13.2:
> 
>         https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-June/241838.html
>         <https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2023-June/241838.html>
> 
>         In GCC 12 a big change was enabling the vectorization support
>         with -O2.
>         This should have stabilized in GCC 13. GCC 13 contains some
>         RTEMS-specific improvements for Ada.
> 
> 
>     I think I am generally ok with moving to 13.2 since we want to be
>     reasonably
>     current when the branch happens.
> 
>     Do you know of any Ada users with Adacore support for GNAT/RTEMS?
>     I am aware of one case and they are using GCC 11 as a base so we already
>     have a mismatch. The user builds RSB tools with TLS disabled for
>     compatibility.
>       I know this isn't a community concern but if we have more Ada
>     users, we want to do
>     right by them.
> 
>     I also was asked about using FORTRAN recently.
> 
>     I'd like to say the same thing about Rust users. :)
> 
> 
>         For Binutils and GDB I would just use the latest release
>         available at
>         the RTEMS 6 branch point.
> 
> 
> Be aware that I have recently rolled 6.1 binutils back from 2.40 to 2.39 
> due to a regression in the AArch64 toolchain. The latest release is 
> still 2.40, so please don't roll that forward until the 2.41 release is 
> out and is verified to have the fix.

The Binutils 2.41 release is close:

https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-June/127930.html

Could you please check, that the fixes are included.

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