Re: [arm-gnu] Compiling Safety Related Systems?

[42Bastian <list-bastian.schick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Charles,

>> - missing proven-in-use numbers
>> There are a lot of users for "GCC" but not "known" number.
> 
> This seems a strange way to look at things.
> 
> Sure, nobody knows how many people are using gcc but if you establish a lower 
> acceptable bound then it should be easy to find that number of users.

The problem here is, as you pointed out later in a way: There a many
versions of GCC around. Some pre-built some home-built, but it is hard to
put a finger on it.

Where as for a commercial product (even the "commercial" CS) version, it
is easier to estimate number of products made with a certain version.

> 
> For example, all of Android phones, iphone, Mac OSX, Linux are build with gcc 
> (though not the same versions) and we're only scratching the surface.
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That's the point. And it not only gcc, binutils, libc (or newlib) and
libstdc++ need also to be fixed.


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