RE: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Georg-Johann Lay [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 10:37 AM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Omar Choudary; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] crosstool-NG
> 
> Besides that, I was astonished that fixing bugs resp. backporting them
> is unwanted by GCC's avr backend maintainers. Would be great if you
> would shed some light on that so I can understand it. How should we get
> rid of bugs if not by fixing them?

It's not that they are unwanted. It's how much effort should be involved in 
backporting to versions that are unlikely to be used by a majority of users. 
There are tradeoffs involved, that is all.

Most users are using 4.4.x (via different toolchain distros). But 4.5.x is 
likely to come out next.

As much as we can make 4.5.x work and get bugs fixed there, then I think (but 
this is just IMHO) that would have the greatest impact on the most users.