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

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Thu Jul 16 17:42:27 CEST 2009


Dear Scott Wood,

In message <4A5F4913.5030808 at freescale.com> you wrote:
> 
> So how do you propose that illegal divide operations be reported to the 
> application?

In the same way as Linux is doing it (i. e. usually nothing at all) ?

> What is so unreasonable about having a function to print a message and 
> dump registers?

We didn't need one for the so far. What exactly do we need it for now?

> You could even make it a weak symbol that stays at NULL, so any attempt 
> to call it will trap that way (assuming NULL pointers are trapped in 
> U-Boot on that architecture...).

As you know, they are not.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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