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

[Georg-Johann Lay]

Weddington, Eric schrieb:
> > -----Original Message----- From: Omar Choudary
> >
> > I am on if I can help getting the tools together. As I proposed on
> > the avr-freaks forum I would like to see avr-gcc + patches merging
> > into the common gcc branch.

Many patches cannot go into mainline GCC because their authors have not 
assigned a GPL copyright assignment. This means that patches' 
functionality has to be rewritten by GPL-proof authors. I know, it's 
kind of annoying and doubling the amount of work, but that's the rule of 
the game...

> Omar, I'm now working on just that.

Great. Iknow that supporting gcc is much work, my respect for that!

> But definitely more needs to be done than just that.

Yes, definitely.

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?

Johann