[U-Boot-Users] Patch: Changes to support GCC 3.3.x

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Mar 4 17:08:17 CET 2004


In message <04030416143003.12732 at pcj86> you wrote:
> Am Donnerstag,  4. März 2004 15:00 schrieb Yuli Barcohen:
> > GCC 3.3.x changed handling of global variables explicitly initialised to
> > zero. It puts them to .bss section and not .data as it was in older GCC
> > versions. This change breaks environment redundancy feature. Attached
> > patch fixes the problem.
> 
> short comment/question: Is the result backward compatible to older pre 3.x 
> gcc ? There are some targets (ex. Nios) with gcc 2.95 support only.

AFAICT it is.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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