Re: MiNT cross-compiler

Hi,

On 24.5.2023 19.19, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-05-24 at 19:11 +0300, Eero Tamminen wrote:
>> Atari MiNT "a.out" format support would also be needed in "binutils".
> 
> a.out support was removed in binutils, so you will have to use something
> like elf2aout.
> 
>> While there are newer GCC versions for MiNT provided by different
>> individuals, Debian packages remained at v4.x.  AFAIK GCC 4.x is used
>> for those because it generates best m68k code when one considers the
>> size of the generated code vs. its performance.
> 
> Did you try LLVM for m68k?

No, but there would not be much point yet.  LLVM m68k port is still 
experimental and AFAIK missing too many features to be a GCC replacement 
(e.g. support for pc-relative addressing mode and coldfire).


	- Eero

>> (Choices done for optimizations in non-HW dependent parts of later GCC
>> versions favor more modern CPUs with larger caches and more RAM in
>> general, than typical m68k machines have.)
>>
>> I.e. newer GCC versions are useful for MiNT mainly due to their support
>> for newer C++ versions.
> 
> Yes, indeed.
> 
> Adrian
>