Re: [avr-gcc-list] gcc+binutils under Linux

[Christoph Plattner]

It is not so curious, at it sounds !

See the thing as a 2-layered software.

The binutils (lower leyer) provide the code generating from 
assembler, does the linking and library processing.

The C compiler a level (layer) higher is the artifical program,
which is able to parse high level language and do complicated
optimazation operations.

The gcc itself consists again of two parts, one is the front
end, doing this above mentioned artificial part, and translating
the code in a meta code (register transfer level), the other is
the backend, producing a machine dependent assembler code,
which is further by the binutils internally.

So the backend work is near the binutils work. But the
important frontend is the main work of the compiler and is
really a machine and binutils independent kind of work !!

Cheers
        Christoph

 

Michel Catudal wrote:
> 
> I finally got the new gcc program to compile last night with no errors but
> have some comment and questions to those who know.
> 
> There has been several months that I've been trying to get the new stuff to
> compile. It has been broken since somewhere around october or november 2000.
> 
> So far I've not been able to get a straight answer as to what happened 
> exactly.
> As I was reading some README files I've noticed that the gcc team has combined
> the two. Despite this fact the distribution is still made of two different
> pieces by different group of people. Unless you know exactly what to do
> there is no way in hell that you will get the two to work together for the
> avr. Everyone I've talked to so far that are not involved in the project
> tell me of errors in compilation much like what I got.
> 
> So after reading that bit of info I copied the directories on the binutils
> tree over to the gcc tree and compiled. It barfed on some C++ errors. I 
> figured
> that since they appear to be errors of the gcc compiler that binutils might 
> have
> some broken files so I copied over the original tree of gcc back to whatever
> I had. I reconfigured, compiled and it did its job without a single errors.
> There are a lot of errors which are flagged as warning like compare between
> unsigned and signed but that's another issue.
> 
> What has confused me in the whole episode is why there is no obvious mention
> that you must combine the two to get anything to work.
> 
> I haven't tried the last approach with the new CVS but I would assume that it 
> shouldn't
> be much different than with the snapshots.
> 
> I will test to see if this works as expected. If I feel that it does I will 
> post
> both the SRPM and RPM files on my web site for those interested. I am using
> SuSE 7.1 so these binaries should work on Mandrake and RedHat as well.
> I will eventually have Debian package as well for Corel 2nd Edition.
> 
> I will try to keep up with the development and if I do find bugs will try
> to fix them. I felt that I must first get the darn thing to compile before I
> would attempt to make any search and fix bugs tasks.
> 
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