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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Petition ARM to not hinder Ada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:22:36 +0000
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Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> ARM have released GCC 5.2 (.1), which is not very incompatible with
> building GNAT.
[...]
> I'm building on OS X El Capitan, so there are various other issues
> with the script: re-running it starts again at the beginning; it
> builds with -static-libgcc, so for example arm-none-eabi-gnatchop -h
> ends with a segv; the last section uses GNU tar with options
> incompatible with Apple tar; it may not relocate too well. Still, it
> just built my Arduino Due testbed OK (I haven't run it yet!).

Not so good. Both the STM32F4 and Arduino Due builds failed to execute
properly, in bizarre ways.

A shame, since it is meant to support armv6-m, armv7-m, armv7e-m,
armv7-r, armv8-m.