Hi KJ, Lin KJ wrote:
I wonder whether the "arm-linux-" toolchains recommend by the uClinux website can be used for ARM uClinux world.
They can, I use them to create running systems. (I always test the GDB/ARMultaor uClinux target with those arm-linux toolchains).
The compiler library "libgcc.a" will be an issue. Since XIP code is must for uClinux, the "libgcc.a" must be produced by the XIP compiling flags.
No, that is not the case. uClinux binaries do not necessarily have to be XIP. For the FLAT format using targets elf2flt can create binaries that do full relocation at load/run time. And this is the case I normally use. For the XIP cases you won't have the right libgcc.a from those toolchains. You would need to generate a toolchain from source and multilib it for the XIP case you want.
For ARM, it will be "-fpic -msingle-pic-base". By objdump inspecting, I found the libgcc.a of the "arm-linux" toolchains on the uClinux website is not compilied by the options.
Thats right...
When the program calls the functions of libgcc.a, it will be broken in some cases. The easy way to test is to do the "long long" variable division. However, i seldom heard people complain about their toolchains. Why? Or my understanding is wrong?
The arm-linux toolchain is really a standard VM linux tool chain. It also happens to work for the non-XIP uClinux case, which is why I use it. (One toolchain for all the arm-linux work I do).
Doesn't other architecture have the same issue?
It all depends on the toolchain in this case. Unfortunately there is a lot of different binary packages out there (different versions, different patches applied, etc). Some won't compile older uClinux-dist, some won't compile newer, it is a trick to find a combination that works the way you want it to (at least if you don't want to build the toolchain yourself). Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Principal Engineer EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SnapGear, a McAfee Company PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev
