[U-Boot] [patch 1/1] Remove linking to libgcc while compiling U-boot

[Scott Wood]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:37:33PM +0100, Remy Bohmer wrote:
> Currently U-boot is linking against libgcc. This should not be needed
> because the compiler toolchain is usually compiled with a certain OS
> interface in mind, and can even be configured for GNU-EABI interfaces.
> This can cause linking conflicts in U-boot when linking to libgcc.

libgcc should *not* be expecting any OS interface.  It may use a few
basic libc functions such as memcpy, that u-boot provides.

> While looking at compiler includes, the only header used from GCC (I
> have seen) seems to be the stdarg.h header, which is even doubtful to
> include in U-boot, because of the same reasons not to link against
> libgcc. This patch only removes the linking part to libgcc.

Why is it doubtful to remove the only portable way to get variable
arguments?  stdarg.h should *not* contain OS dependencies.

-Scott