Re: [gccsdk] GCC8+ what new environment check is needed for packages

On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 07:31:51PM +0000, Lee Noar wrote:
> If I'm understanding you correctly, then GCC8 and later should work on
> anything with VFP, so a VFP check should be OK, however, the libraries
> are not compatible with GCC4. The libraries for GCC8/10 are stored in
> !SharedLibs.lib.armeabi, so armeabi would be the name of environment?
> Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK

If code generated by the new GCC depends on VFP, where does that leave
people using RPCemu/VirtualRPC for their day-to-day use? I run GCCSDK
under Linux and test on RPCemu on the same machine. I've not had a
native RISC OS machine since I left Simtec a decade ago.

I don't think RPCemu provides any VFP, and I don't recall there being a
VFPEmulator module - but I admit to not looking for in a decade.

Perhaps it might be time to try porting RISC OS to a qemu target so we
can just plug in modern CPUs as they come along and use KVM on native
ARM hardware.

B.

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