[coldfire-gnu-discuss] Objective-C

[David Brown]

Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> Andre,
>> I see from the CodeSourcery site that you've got G++ compilers -- are 
>> these substantially modified(cut-down) or enhanced from GCC? I've also 
>> been through the GCC project site and found that your staff contribute 
>> much to GCC and are largely responsible for improved ColdFire support 
>> in GCC which is just WONDERFUL!
> 
> Thank you :)  The toolchains we provide have the ColdFire patches ported 
> to stable GCC branches (4.1 is the current release, and 4.2 is arriving 
> shortly). Mainline FSF has the ColdFire changes and those will work 
> their way into 4.3. In addition, we validate the binaries we provided by 
> building them in a controlled environment and running the testsuites on 
> a variety of target boards.
> 

I just read about that on the gcc website - I too am glad to see your 
ColdFire improvements being merged back to the mainline.  The fact that 
you guys are willing and able to contribute ColdFire improvements to gcc 
is the biggest reason for my choosing Code Sourcery in the first place 
("willing" and "able" counting roughly equally).  Well done!

 From what I have read on the gcc website, gcc 4.2 has a number of small 
improvements, but gcc 4.3 is a more substantial improvement.  Is that right?

We may be looking at ARM development in the near future - do you also 
work directly on improvements on the ARM target of gcc?

mvh.,

David