Ralf Baechle wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > >>> Latest GCC upstream supports it (in SVN since 2007-07-05). >>> >> Good news although gcc 4.3 release is planed for end of January. >> >> Is SDE gcc going to be obsolete after this release ? > > As for the kernel I don't really care. The policy is that a working kernel > must be buildable with a stock gcc. Which at times is painful, search for > all the great use of .word in include/asm-mips/ ... This doesn't say > anything against taking advantage of other toolchains such SDE; it's just It's actually hard to know the advantages of using SDE over a stock gcc. The only difference I'm aware of is the smartmips ASE support in SDE. But since this support is going to be added in stock gccs, I don't see any advantages now and I'm wondering if I can give up using SDE... Franck
