Re: Selecting GCC release

Georg-Johann Lay schrieb:
> Juergen Harms schrieb:
>> We need to upgrade the AVR GCC cross-compiler package of the Mageia 
>> distro, the present package uses GCC-4.8.1.
>>
>> Simply packaging the latest available GCC release would be a naive 
>> approach, as illustrated in last years ML thread on "GCC 6.1.0, 
>> strings and PROGMEM": a year ago - about 1 month after its release 
>> date - GCC 6.x was considered to still need some stabilising, the 
>> advice was to use 5.x.
> 
> FYI: The mentioned discussion starts here:
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/avr-gcc-list/2016-05/msg00009.html
> 
> The issue was filed as https://gcc.gnu.org/PR71151 and bugzilla says 
> it's fixed since v6.2.
> 
>> How is the situation now?  does 7.1.0  still has issues wrt to using 
>> it in the avr toolchain? can we get advice which GCC release to select 
>> for packaging into a more or less typical Linux distro?
> 
> It depends whether you want bleeding edge or be conservative.
> The X.1 release is the 1st one hitting user land.  And after all, GCC
> is software, hence there will be bugs :-/
> 
> Problems fixed in v6.2: 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=6.2&list_id=181687 
> 
> 
> Problems fixed in v6.3: 
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=6.3&list_id=181687 

...and problems that will be fixed in the upcoming v6.4:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=6.4&list_id=181687

Johann