Thanks Michael. Just wanted to make sure I understood. The "do no harm" goal and the Thumb2 libgcc seem to be somewhat contradictory however. I realize that choices need to be made and only odd ducks like me will likely run into issues. My particular case is wanting to build u-boot for old and new ARM chips with the same gcc. U-Boot has its own libgcc that I can use as a work around.
John On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Michael Hope <michael.h...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:44 AM, John Rigby <john.ri...@linaro.org> wrote: >> I believe that the libgcc.a in our toolchain contains Thumb-2 code. I >> verified this by doing objdump on libgcc.a and I see combinations of >> 16 and 32 bit instructions. So does that mean that the toolchain is >> only usable for ARM versions that support Thumb-2? > > Our focus is Thumb-2 on Cortex-A processors. We try to 'do no harm', > so Linaro GCC should be as good as the FSF GCC on older ARM > architectures or non-ARM architectures such as i686 and x86_64. > > The included libgcc is compiled for processors with Thumb-2 and > VFPv3-D16. I'm afraid I have no plans for other variants at the > moment, but you might want to talk with Marcin and Wookey about this. > > -- Michael > _______________________________________________ linaro-toolchain mailing list linaro-toolchain@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain
