Bug#623014: gcc-defaults: please default to gcc-4.5 on mips and mipsel
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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