[uClibc] uclibc support for gcc?

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Mon May 9 06:14:57 UTC 2005


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.

Manuel



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