Re: 回复: [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

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 03:50:33PM -0600, Rebecca Cran wrote:
> On 4/2/23 12:38 PM, Pedro Falcato wrote:
> > As expressed off-list on UEFI talkbox, I like GCCNOLTO, but I would
> > rather keep GCC5 as GCC5, for the next future iteration of "lets bump
> > a new toolchain because we need feature X".
> 
> Given we've gone from GCC 5 through 12 with no new toolchains, I'd prefer to
> just have GCC.
> 
> > This is unsurprising, plenty of NOLTO build breakage. Since no one
> > seems to use this, could we think about axing this or?
> > 
> > Just seems silly to have an extra toolchain (with extra cognitive
> > overhead for anyone looking at tools_def) for s/-flto//g
> 
> Since Liming wants to keep it, let's make all the other changes (deleting VS
> 2008-2013, CLANG35, CLANG38 etc.) and keep GCCNOLTO and GCC for now. If
> nobody fixes the problems with GCCNOLTO, maybe we can revisit dropping it in
> a few months?

I'm wondering what the point in keeping a known-broken toolchain though.
It is apparently unused when nobody noticed the breakage ...

take care,
  Gerd



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