Re: [avr-libc-dev] [patch #7830] avr-libc headers are very outdated

[David Brown]

On 15/08/2012 09:28, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As David Brown wrote:
>
> > Of course, the ideal situation is that there are no patches - but gcc
> > development does not tend to work like that!
>
> To be fair, Georg-Johann has been *very* eager recently to integrate
> all the outstanding AVR-GCC patches, including the large Xmega patch.
> Unless you really need support for the very most recent AVR devices
> that have been released just in the past months (and thus didn't make
> it yet into a GCC release), you can get away with a stock GCC 4.7.1
> these days without any further patches.

I did not mean to imply that the people involved in the avr gcc port 
were slow at getting patches integrated - quite the opposite, in fact! 
Patches are needed because Georg-Johann, Erik, and others get so much 
done in the avr port, but it takes time to get them integrated into the 
mainline gcc tree (and this is also understandable - gcc is a huge 
project, covering lots of targets and hosts, and it takes time for 
testing, approval, etc.).