From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23858 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2007 16:04:19 -0000 Received: (qmail 23847 invoked by uid 22791); 21 Sep 2007 16:04:18 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com (HELO snape.ecoscentric.com) (212.13.207.199) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:04:14 +0000 Received: from localhost (snape.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) by snape.ecoscentric.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CFE8C540D1; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:04:12 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ecoscentric.com Received: from snape.ecoscentric.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (snape.ecoscentric.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jZTuFm2LVAKg; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:03:47 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <46F3EB63.1080309@eCosCentric.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 16:04:00 -0000 From: Jonathan Larmour User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070530) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: taiyun@sunnorth.com.cn CC: ecos-maintainers@ecos.sourceware.org Subject: Re: eCos with arm eabi compiler References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact ecos-maintainers-help@ecos.sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: ecos-maintainers-owner@ecos.sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-09/txt/msg00006.txt.bz2 taiyun@sunnorth.com.cn wrote: > > arm-eabi compiler's linker script has different sections from arm-elf > compiler's, e.g: .ARM.extab, .ARM.exidx and .ARM.attributes 0, these 3 > sections are own in arm-eabi compiler. These sections should be added to > arm.ld, aren't they? Yes they would want to be added. > If so, there are 2 ways to achieve this goal. One is > making direct changes to arm.ld and adding corresponding sections' > definitions. The other is setting up a new arch-eabi directory in hal/arm, > which is only for arm-eabi compiler. Which is the best? Definitely the first is best, from what you describe. The changes are relatively small, so a whole new package is not required. Obviously care will be required to preserve the behaviour of existing arm-elf toolchains. Jifl -- eCosCentric Limited http://www.eCosCentric.com/ The eCos experts Barnwell House, Barnwell Drive, Cambridge, UK. Tel: +44 1223 245571 Registered in England and Wales: Reg No 4422071. >>>> Visit us on stand 810 at The Embedded Systems Show 2007, NEC <<<< >>>> Oct 17-18 Birmingham, UK http://www.edaexhibitions.com/ess/ <<<< ------["The best things in life aren't things."]------ Opinions==mine