Any plans to integrate just binutils‑gdb in to GCC?
unlvsur unlvsur <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:17:13 +0000
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LLVM provides unified replacements for both binutils‑gdb and GCC (including llvm, llvm‑ar, lld, lldb, clang, libc++, etc.), which makes adding support for new platforms—such as WebAssembly—much simpler. Is there any intention to consolidate binutils‑gdb with GCC to create a more integrated toolchain? Adding a platform for compiler support to modify two projects is a huge headache. Moreover, binutils-gdb itself already relies on dependencies GCC require (gmp, mpfr, mpc etc). Just merge two project together so we can start to phase out all the platform mess to eliminate cross compiler completely like LLVM/clang do. Make native compiler itself a "cross compiler". In the future, there will only be native vs canadian, no more "native vs cross" --target=xxxx --sysroot=