[uClibc] uclibc support for gcc?

[Dan Kegel]

Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 10:54:26PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
> 
>>Manuel Novoa III wrote:
>>
>>>>i dont believe anyone has sent anything upstream for gcc ... mjn3 has 
>>>>been working on the C++/locale stuff recently with gcc-4, but the reason 
>>>>it hasnt been sent upstream so far is because (afaik) no one felt it was 
>>>>good/stable enough for gcc to accept
>>>
>>>...
>>>As far as the libstdc++ stuff goes, the uClibc locale implementation
>>>was/is really a proof of concept.  I've always intended to rewrite it,
>>>and I'll very likely break the current internal API when I do.  So pushing
>>>the current patches upstream would just make more of a headache for me
>>>when that happens.  In fact, I've stated several times that the libstdc++
>>>related patches are NOT to be submitted upstream for that very reason.
>>
>>Fair enough.  What about the C stuff, e.g.
>>4.0.0/100-uclibc-conf.patch ?
>>Is that stable enough to push upstream?
> 
> For 4.0.0, probably not.  I've only built for x86 and mipsel and haven't
> really tested those.  I know lethal checked in some changes for sh support.
> Wouldn't surprise me if cris (at least) was broken.  Waiting another
> week or two for problems to surface would probably be wise.

OK, it's been eight weeks.  Are any of the patches in
http://www.uclibc.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/buildroot/toolchain/gcc/
stable enough to push upstream to the gcc folks?
- Dan

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