On Tue, 17 May 2005, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
This kind of tone will only discourage contributors.
My tone was no different than Ralf's toward me.
Well, I admit I had been sarcastic/fatalistic in replying to Steven, primarily, because I am pretty much frustrated about GCC's mainstream developer's position/attitude on embedded targets. Steven's answers perfectly queue-in into a long history of incidents which had lead me to my understanding of "GCC mainstream developers' attitude" on "embedded targets", which I already had described in former postings.
Ralf,
frustration will not help anybody nor GCC itself. Please look into GCC 3.4 and GCC 4.0 release criteria documents:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/criteria.html http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/criteria.html
you see that 4.0 added "embedded" platforms like arm-none-elf and mips-none-elf to the primary platforms list. That's IMHO just a sign that SC takes embedded developers seriously. Anyway, if you are not satisfied with this list, what about to suggest to SC to add some other more real embedded platform to this list to at least fix some of the most obvious problems? What platform would you suggest? I think that if you take the
discussion into this direction then we can see very good fruits comming from it, at least for some future GCC releases.
Thanks and I appreciate your hard work on rtems/gcc platform! Karel -- Karel Gardas [EMAIL PROTECTED] ObjectSecurity Ltd. http://www.objectsecurity.com
