Re: Petition ARM to not hinder Ada

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> writes:

> 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.

I take that back; today it built my testbeds for both MCUs and buth
worked as designed.