I ran the fail case with -Wl,-u,main and this works for me. Thanks for all your help and all the work to bring gcc to MSP430.
Robert On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Peter Bigot wrote: > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Peter Bigot <big...@acm.org> wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Robert Wessels <robertin...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >>> I also noticed that when inspecting the .elf file with msp430-nm the symbol >>> main is not present in the no blinky elf file (as expected). The working >>> elf file does have the symbol main (as expected). Not sure of the magic >>> going in the background but to me it seems the linker simply striped main. >>> >> >> In this situation, there's nothing to tell the system that main is >> referenced, so it isn't included. I'll see if I can come up with a >> solution internally (the "obvious" one didn't work), but until then it >> should work if you add: >> >> -Wl,-u,main >> >> to the link line. This will force ld to try to find a definition for >> main and include it in the output. > > And that's how this will be resolved. The alternative is to have an > explicit dependency on main in the CRT code; all solutions that > provide that also increase at flash space, and RAM too if main is no > longer special. I believe the number of people wanting to put main > into an archive is smaller than the number of people trying to write > code for the value-line chips who could be impacted by such a change, > and that the burden of having to add this flag is pretty small. > > Note that -Wl,-u,main must appear before whatever archive contains > main, or ld won't include it. > > Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Mspgcc-users mailing list Mspgcc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mspgcc-users
