On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 19:11 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote: > Atari MiNT "a.out" format support would also be needed in "binutils".
a.out support was removed in binutils, so you will have to use something like elf2aout. > While there are newer GCC versions for MiNT provided by different > individuals, Debian packages remained at v4.x. AFAIK GCC 4.x is used > for those because it generates best m68k code when one considers the > size of the generated code vs. its performance. Did you try LLVM for m68k? > (Choices done for optimizations in non-HW dependent parts of later GCC > versions favor more modern CPUs with larger caches and more RAM in > general, than typical m68k machines have.) > > I.e. newer GCC versions are useful for MiNT mainly due to their support > for newer C++ versions. Yes, indeed. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913