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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713