Tool versions for RTEMS 6.1 release?

[Kinsey Moore]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:58 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 1:26 AM Sebastian Huber <
> 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
>>
>> 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.

Kinsey
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