[U-Boot] [PATCH 1/2 v6] Make libgcc inclusion from common Makefile overridable by platform config file

[Scott Wood]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 18:18:20 Scott Wood wrote:
>> It seems pretty reasonable for U-Boot to provide functions like
>> raise()/abort() that take the place of a hardware exception, and display
>> an error message.
> 
> i disagree here.  how much of the C library are you proposing we implement ?  
> if libgcc keeps calling more and more functions,

Has it been?

> you suggest we keep adding stubs for it ?  seems like a never ending losing battle where we get screwed.  

I don't see any slippery slope here, just a handful of functions that 
any reasonable freestanding implementation is going to want (memcpy, 
etc) and some way of getting an error out (raise/abort).

If it starts wanting libc functions that aren't reasonable, then of 
course we should complain (possibly with patches, for those willing to 
deal with the copyright assignment process).

-Scott