Re: [avr-gcc-list] Don't use gcc 3.4.4, use 4.0.1

[Denis Chertykov]

"E. Weddington" <address@hidden> writes:

> Andy Warner wrote:
> 
> >E. Weddington wrote:
> >
> >>[...]
> >> I'd like some other issues in GCC 4.x to be cleaned up for the AVR
> >> port before including it in WinAVR, especially DWARF2 issues. Here
> >> is a list of known AVR GCC bugs:
> >><http://rtems.org/phpwiki/index.php/GCCAVRBugs>
> >>
> >
> >As a Linux-hosted user, is 4.0.1 stable enough for me to spend
> >some time getting to know it ? I'm running 3.4.3 right now, and
> >am very happy with it - but smaller/faster code is always welcome.
> >I'm cool building it all from source.
> >
> 
> Personally I would still hesitate to use it in any type of production
> environment because of these two GCC bugs:
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21990>
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21107>
> 
> Bug #21990 is a "wrong code" type bug and was submitted by Björn
> Haase. He stated in the beginning:
> "I have observed a wrong code bug that I judge to be so serious that
> IMHO one should discourage use of the avr port for 4.x.x until it is
> resolved."

I can't reproduce this bug with current mainline.

Denis.