Re: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 00/13] BaseTools,CryptoPkg,MdePkg,OvmfPkg: Delete CLANG35,CLANG38,GCC48,GCC49, rename GCC5 to GCC, update CLANGDWARF, delete VS 2008-2013, EBC

["Ard Biesheuvel" <ardb@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 at 03:20, gaoliming via groups.io
<gaoliming=byosoft.com.cn@groups.io> wrote:
>
> Rebecca:
>
>
> > -----邮件原件-----
> > 发件人: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> 代表 Rebecca Cran
> > 发送时间: 2023年3月29日 1:31
> > 收件人: devel@edk2.groups.io; Oliver Smith-Denny <osd@smith-denny.com>;
> > Guomin Jiang <guomin.jiang@intel.com>; Xiaoyu Lu <xiaoyu1.lu@intel.com>;
> > Jian J Wang <jian.j.wang@intel.com>; Jiewen Yao <jiewen.yao@intel.com>;
> > Ard Biesheuvel <ardb+tianocore@kernel.org>; Jordan Justen
> > <jordan.l.justen@intel.com>; Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>; Bob Feng
> > <bob.c.feng@intel.com>; Liming Gao <gaoliming@byosoft.com.cn>; Andrew
> > Fish <afish@apple.com>; Leif Lindholm <quic_llindhol@quicinc.com>;
> > Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> > 抄送: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bsdio.com>
> > 主题: [edk2-devel] [PATCH v2 00/13] BaseTools,CryptoPkg,MdePkg,OvmfPkg:
> > Delete CLANG35,CLANG38,GCC48,GCC49, rename GCC5 to GCC, update
> > CLANGDWARF, delete VS 2008-2013, EBC
> >
> > Update the toolchain definitions:
> >
> > - Delete the CLANG35 and CLANG38 toolchains, and replace CLANG38 with
> >   CLANGDWARF, updating it to support ARM and AARCH64 in addition to X64
> > and IA32.
> >
> > - Remove GCC48 and GCC49.
>
> GCC49 is one GCC tool chain without LTO enable option. GCC5 is another GCC tool chain with LTO enable option.
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> They have the different usage. I suggest to keep GCC49 and GCC5 both, and also keep their name as is.
>

Could we perhaps do

GCC49 -> GCC
GCC5  -> GCCLTO

?

As with CLANG35/38, the GCCx names have become rather obsolete, so I'd
prefer to have a set of more generic names, and a sliding window of
supported versions that can be documented in tools_def.template (and
updated at times)