[U-Boot-Users] Uboot GCC extensions / Is it possible to build uboot with a non-gcc compiler

[J.Ma]

On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:

> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>
> Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
>
> A: Top-posting.
>
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
>
> Please do NOT top-post/full-quote. Please read
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

Thank you for your correction, I apologize again. ;)

>
>
> In message <dcf6addc0808060351t7b6cd18eqad06726375beaab4 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>>      I read u-boot 1.3.3 README and searched code generally, I guess the answer
>> might be sad for me. Anyway, Could anyone double-check this thing?
>
> Why should we spend efforts on doing so? We all have working GNU
> development environments.
>
> It is you who wants to use some proprietary tool chain which is not
> available to us, you you are in the position to test this - we aren't.
>
>>      README mentions that uboot uses some gcc feature, depends on some gcc
>> implementation. There are many 'inline' found in uboot code, but no 'attribute'
>> found as linux kernel.
>
> You are wrong. __attribute__ is actually used a lot, for several
> purposes:
>
>        -> find * -type f | xargs egrep _attribute_ | wc -l
>        412
>

Got it, Thanks.



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