Chris Peterson [:cpeterson] Reporter
	Description • 12 years ago

NDK r8b includes some significant improvements like gcc 4.6 (up from 4.4) and the gold linker.

TODO:

1. Fix build. I hit some build errors where our definition of struct sigcontext conflicts with Android's sigcontext.h.

2. Test gold linker because of known binutils bug:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=35342 

3. File a RelEng bug to get the process of updating the NDK started.

	Mike Hommey [:glandium]
	Comment 1 • 12 years ago

Note we've had a gcc 4.6-enabled NDK available on the build slaves for a while (with gold as default linker, contrary to NDK r8b), and were ready to enable it in bug 769099 but there's bug 749184 on the way.

	Kartikaya Gupta (email:kats@mozilla.staktrace.com)
	Comment 2 • 12 years ago

Since this never happened I think we should just upgrade directly to r8c which doesn't have the problems listed above. See bug 769099 for some discussion.