[yocto] [meta-raspberry-pi] needing newer or patched version of g++

[Bill Jenkins]

> On Sep 15, 2017, at 6:54 AM, Khem Raj <raj.khem at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 10:14 PM, Bill Jenkins <bill at korgrd.com> wrote:
>> After creating an SDK for a 32-bit Raspberry Pi3 target, I ran into the following compiler error when
>> compiling an application using the SDK:
>> 
>> internal compiler error: Max. number of generated reload insns per insn is achieved (90)
>> 
>> It turns out that a patch was submitted for g++ early last year for the above problem,
> 
> We need to backport the patch to 6.3.0 and regenerate SDK. If you can
> point to patch that will be helpful.

Thanks Khem, here's a link to the commit:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/4fe01ba94e99e792ebe9da2ccb3b071aa1bac388#diff-af18d9175d034b2b3726f1ddc05fae55

> 
> but apparently that
>> patch is not in the 6.3.0 version within the SDK. When I try to specify a newer version,
>> (by using PREFERRED_VERSION_gcc-cross-${TARGET_ARCH}) bitbake reports that only 5.4.0 or 6.3.0
>> are available. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? (i.e. is there some way to use a newer g++ or to
>> apply the patch?)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Bill
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