[U-Boot] [RFC] ARM: Toolchain configuration for Cortex A8 based OMAP3?

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Tue Aug 26 17:54:04 CEST 2008


On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 08:31:40PM +0200, Dirk Behme wrote:
> Did check regarding -lgcc_eh: Used CodeSourcery tool chain and 
> compiled (linked) with and without -lgcc_eh. The resulting binaries 
> are identical and no link issues. Seems we can remove -lgcc_eh then. I 
> just wonder now why it is there and what it is (was?) good for?

It's runtime support for exception handling, which C doesn't have, and
thus U-Boot clearly shouldn't need it.

-Scott


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