Re: Has anyone successfully bootstrapped gcc-4.6.3 on m68k?
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Finn Thain dixit:
>
> >Has anyone benchmarked those binaries (running on the hybrid platform)
> >against native 68020 and Coldfire binaries (running on their respective
> >native platforms)?
>
> Since I?ve seen an strace and been explained what SYS_333 is I believe
> benchmarks of modern-eglibc m68k are beyond salvagable anyway.
>
> Maybe a new ABI, with a register reserved for TLS, would actually be
> faster, despite being more generic, since it saves kernel calls?
You could benchmark that also. But it isn't really relevant to the
problem.
>
> When doing a generic *nix distribution, and it?s not called Gentoo, you
> *need* to produce generic executables. (Which is why ARM is
> fundamentally doomed, as you have not only one kernel image per board,
> but also arm, armeb, armel(debian), armel(ubuntu), armhf by now. And
> with devices being outdated before they hit the market, and the market
> being a cheap throw-away one, I see it getting only worse.)
That kind of fragmentation may or may not be a problem for CF in the
future ... who knows?
Finn
>
> bye,
> //mirabilos
>
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