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>On Wed, May 08, 2019 at 03:44:45PM +0100, Pete Batard wrote:
>> On 2019.05.08 13:16, xulin wrote:
>> > Got it. BTW, do you have plan to support for higher version GCC? Such as
>> > GCC8?
>>
>> Well, I am not speaking for the project as a whole, but past experience
>> seems to indicate that support for newer toolchain is added by contributors
>> (which, really, can be anyone) on an ad hoc basis, when the need is
>> identified and/or a new toolchain becomes popular, as well as *if* the
>> definitions from the current toolchain (such as GCC5) do not work well
>> enough to support the later versions.
>>
Certainly.
GCC5 is working good on Ubuntu 16.04, but i have another PC with Ubuntu 18.10
installed, and i can't just install gcc-5 with apt-get install, i guess gcc-5
package is removed from apt source, i believe i can find a way to install
gcc-5 on Ubuntu 18.10 with some effort... but i would not try to, because
VS2017 works good now :)
You don’t need to install GCC5. You can try build the code with GCC5 tool chain.
If you find any issue, please submit BZ
https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/. Current design is
to make GCC5 support GCC version 5 or above.
>> So I don't think there are official plans with regards to adding such an
>> such toolchain (such as GCC8 or VS2019) apart from waiting for contributors,
>> who might have a vested interest in those, to provide patches where needed.
>> For most Open Source projects, this usually happen organically, without any
>> specific timeline, as each toolchain becomes more widespread.
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>Correct.
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>Basically, GCC 4.x was an absolute mess in changing command line
>options and behaviours (cetainly on the ARM* side, but I think also
>for x86). Since GCC 5.0, this has stabilised a lot, so we
>haven't needed to produce any version-specific profiles since that one.
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>GCC9 looks "interesting" in throwing up new buildtime warnings (from
>looking at other projects), so it might be that it will need a new
>profile, but it may also be that all those are genuine bugs and need
>to be fixed.
Oh..I didn't notice that GCC9 is available now, maybe i should check the
release News.
Thank you :)
Regards,
Flynn
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>Certainly, any issues people come across, please report.
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>Regards,
>
>Leif