On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:40:30PM -0500, Ben Kamen wrote: >I'm sort of lost as to where I might even start with this, and since >this group is so fluent (I'm guessing) with GCC, I'm hoping someone >here can either answer or point me to where I can go look. > >(I'm looking on the gnu.org's gplusplus list and am not sure if that's >a good source since it seems kind of dead) > >Anyway - here's my problem. > >I'm working on an embedded app that uses GCC for its compiler. > >I have 2 pieces of code that share common library functions from libc.a >like memcpy and strlen > >Because the two pieces are a bootloader and the application, I would >like the bootloader to be linked with a completely private set of >functions which INCLUDEs the library calls they make. > >This would duplicate those libc.a calls like memcpy() and strlen() >inside the bootloader portion. > >So my question is (and I might be looking in the wrong place to do >this, but it seems like 'ld' would take care of it): > >How do I tell the ld that for bootloader.o, all library references like >memcpy() should be inlined/included with that function. I've got all >the functions in the bootloader corralled into the memory space I want, >but the functions called in libc.a are shared. > >'static' only works for the immediate function while any calls to a >libc.a function get shared with the main application. > >I've already tried the forum for the micro-controller I'm using.. but >apparently, it's new enough that I'm too far ahead on the curve for >anyone else to help me. (even from the company) > >Thanks in advance and sorry for bugging all of you here.. if I hear >crickets, I'll try and keep digging elsewhere.
This is more than slightly offtopic here. It's completely offtopic. Please find another forum. Sorry. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple