From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25473 invoked by alias); 28 Nov 2007 03:23:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 25461 invoked by uid 22791); 28 Nov 2007 03:23:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:23:37 +0000 Received: (qmail 23243 invoked from network); 28 Nov 2007 03:23:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.2?) (mitchell@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 28 Nov 2007 03:23:36 -0000 Message-ID: <474CDF23.8020908@codesourcery.com> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:40:00 -0000 From: Mark Mitchell User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Joseph S. Myers" CC: Bernd Schmidt , Jie Zhang , gcc@gcc.gnu.org, GCC Patches , Richard Sandiford Subject: Re: Link tests after GCC_NO_EXECUTABLES References: <46EFBCC1.6070200@gmail.com> <46EFC383.7020503@t-online.de> <46EFC9E9.7090201@gmail.com> <46EFCEF9.3060304@t-online.de> <46EFCF7A.2080704@gmail.com> <46EFD236.6080907@t-online.de> <46EFDA4D.3070006@gmail.com> <474C0C52.8050503@t-online.de> <474C8FA4.2040603@codesourcery.com> <474C95BA.1060807@t-online.de> <474C96C1.7010208@codesourcery.com> <474C98AA.50105@t-online.de> <474C9A65.2060902@codesourcery.com> <474C9B33.8060503@t-online.de> <474C9CBD.2070708@codesourcery.com> <474C9E12.6050903@t-online.de> <474CACB5.2040704@codesourcery.com> <474CC128.1050005@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact gcc-patches-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-patches-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2007-11/txt/msg01546.txt.bz2 Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mark Mitchell wrote: > >> Yes, that makes sense to me. Bare metal systems are of course somewhat >> different. What do you think about that? > > I think it's well established that at least some bare-metal systems > default to not linking with any particular start-files (etc.). Sorry, I meant to be asking: "for bare-metal, do you think we should permit the library configure scripts to perform link tests (as we do for GNU/Linux), or should we require that they perform no link tests?" >> Do you understand how MIPS/Power works? I'd really like to know what >> the difference is. It might be an easy difference to resolve, or there >> might be something more fundamental, but before we do anything I'd like >> to know why one works and the other doesn't. Thanks for answering this. Bernd, I'd be interested in whether any of that helps. Thanks, -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery mark@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713