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

Stephan Linz linz at mazet.de
Thu Mar 4 16:14:30 CET 2004


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.


Best Regards,
Stephan Linz




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