Hi Jeremy ! Thanks a lot for your reply ! Please see my reply inline.
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:35 AM, Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.benn...@embecosm.com> wrote: > On 24/07/14 03:38, Sandeep K Chaudhary wrote: >> Hi Guys, >> >> I wish to implement a GCC plugin that can work with avr-gcc. I came to >> realize that the latest avr-gcc or avr-g++ is based off GCC 4.8.2. >> However, the whole GCC plugin APIs were introduced in 4.9.0. >> Therefore, the 'fplugin' option is not present with the latest >> avr-gcc. > > Hi Shadeep, > > That doesn't seem right to me. I think the plugin mechanism his already > there. For example the MAGEEC plugin (www.mageec.org) works with both > 4.8 and 4.9 AVR GCC. > > It is possible that official distributions are compiled with it > disabled. What does gcc -v report? Here is the output of "gcc -v" : sandeep@ubuntu:~/ispec$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.8/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,java,go,d,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.8 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.8 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --disable-libmudflap --enable-plugin --with-system-zlib --disable-browser-plugin --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64/jre --enable-java-home --with-jvm-root-dir=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-jvm-jar-dir=/usr/lib/jvm-exports/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.8-amd64 --with-arch-directory=amd64 --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --enable-objc-gc --enable-multiarch --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i686 --with-abi=m64 --with-multilib-list=m32,m64,mx32 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) "--enable-shared" is configured here. Is this what you meant? Please let me know. > > However... > > While the interface for initializing a plugin is well defined, plugins > inherently use internal APIs and these are not stable. In the MAGEEC > plugin you'll see a lot of #ifdefs with the GCC minor version numbers. > > If you are doing this sort of work, I suggest you just use mainline GCC. > Then you can be sure you are using the latest version. > >> Can someone please tell me when we can expect to have the plugin >> support in avr-gcc? Also, is there some way to get around this problem >> i.e. somehow being able to use the plugin option with current avr-gcc? >> >> It would be a great help if I can get the plugin option to work with avr-gcc. > > I believe it is working. Have a look at the code for MAGEEC to see how > we use it. It's on GitHub: > > https://github.com/mageec/mageec > > (I demonstrated this at the GNU Tools Cauldron last weekend. The talk > and video should be up in a couple of weeks). Yes, I am looking at this code. In case of questions, will get back to you. > > Best wishes, > > > Jeremy > > -- > Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 > Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 > SkypeID: jeremybennett > Twitter: @jeremypbennett > Email: jeremy.benn...@embecosm.com > Web: www.embecosm.com > > _______________________________________________ > AVR-GCC-list mailing list > AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list -- Thanks and regards, Sandeep K Chaudhary. _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list
