[CMake] Toolchain file: Texas Instrument C6000 Code Generation Tools

[Florian Reinhard]

2013/3/18 Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org>:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:10 PM, Florian Reinhard
> <florian.reinhard at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> In addition compilers upto 7.2 did not support anything else than coff
>> abi. So i don't see any valid reason to add --abi=eabi. Even more you
>> usually set your silicon for improved optimizer results with e.g
>> set_target_properties(myTarget PROPERTIES COMPILE_FLAGS "-mv6740")
>> and i see no reason not to add --abi=eabi there if one needs it.
>
>
> Well, EABI will most likely be upcoming as the default in the new TI
> versions. It will make no sense to use such an old legacy stuff mostly
> incompatible with the majority of the rest.
>
> Also, 7.2 was released a quite while ago, more than 2 years. If one still
> uses that version, that is likely a call for troubles. Texas Instruments
> discourage that, at least in our case, anyhow.
>
> By the way, Qt will have the EABI by default instead of the COFFABI. Here
> you can see the progress for that:
>
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,51173
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,51233
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,51228
> https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,51078
>
> ... and more to come.
>
> Laszlo
>

I still don't see that this is a valid reason to break things for others.