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Bug#623014: marked as done (gcc-defaults: please default to gcc-4.5 on mips and mipsel)

Your message dated Tue, 3 May 2011 11:34:15 +0200
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and subject line Re: gcc-defaults: please default to gcc-4.5 on mips and mipsel
has caused the Debian Bug report #623014,
regarding gcc-defaults: please default to gcc-4.5 on mips and mipsel
to be marked as done.

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Package: gcc-defaults
Version: 1.102
Severity: wishlist

Now that gcc-4.5 seems to be in a good shape, I think it's time to 
make it the default on mips and mipsel. Note that it introduces a few
changes:
- The default ABI in gcc-4.5 is MIPS II instead of MIPS I. It means that
  it's not necessary anymore to use '.set mips2' pseudo ops in assembly 
  code to get access to the atomic instructions (ll, sc, lld, scd).
  gcc-4.5 also doesn't emit any more delay slot after load/store
  instructions, which slightly reduce the size of the generated 
  binaries. The drawback is that MIPS3000 CPUs are not supported 
  anymore. It should not be a big deal, especially given we don't 
  provide kernels for these CPUs for years. 
- gcc-4.5 enables PLT and copy relocation extensions of MIPS ABI by
  default (-mplt), which produces faster binaries.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: mips (mips64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-5kc-malta
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 1.104

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 06:19:57PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Package: gcc-defaults
> Version: 1.102
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Now that gcc-4.5 seems to be in a good shape, I think it's time to 
> make it the default on mips and mipsel. Note that it introduces a few
> changes:
> - The default ABI in gcc-4.5 is MIPS II instead of MIPS I. It means that
>   it's not necessary anymore to use '.set mips2' pseudo ops in assembly 
>   code to get access to the atomic instructions (ll, sc, lld, scd).
>   gcc-4.5 also doesn't emit any more delay slot after load/store
>   instructions, which slightly reduce the size of the generated 
>   binaries. The drawback is that MIPS3000 CPUs are not supported 
>   anymore. It should not be a big deal, especially given we don't 
>   provide kernels for these CPUs for years. 
> - gcc-4.5 enables PLT and copy relocation extensions of MIPS ABI by
>   default (-mplt), which produces faster binaries.
> 

This was fixed in version 1.104 (actually defaulting to gcc-4.6), despite 
not being mentioned in the changelog. Closing the bug manually.


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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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