Re: [patch] PR40134, use a linker script on arm-linux to link with -lgcc_s -lgcc

[Nathan Froyd <froydnj@codesourcery.com>]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:14:25AM +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:03:24AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Use a linker script to link with -lgcc_s -lgcc on arm-linux, which allows the
> > arm-linux target to run the testsuite without regressions with the patch for the
> > exception propagation support [1] enabled.
> > 
> > The approach taken is the same as used on the sh-linux configuration.
> 
> For branch I think this could be acceptable, but for trunk I really think
> we should do this on all architectures that have shared libgcc_s*.
> It is not just arm/sh that need this, but also e.g. ppc-linux (and maybe
> ppc64-linux), where libgcc.a only contains the out of line gpr/fpr register
> save/restores.

The patch isn't needed for ppc64-linux, because the linker synthesizes
the necessary routines when necessary.  The code for emitting out of
line saves/restores is actually broken at the moment, but the patch to
fix the brokenness can't be committed because of the above issue.

-Nathan