[U-Boot] EABI 4.2

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Tom,

In message <20100317084833.364b27fa at marrow.netinsight.se> Simon Kagstrom wrote:
> (Sorry if this has already been taken up, I've not been following the
> discussion closely)
> 
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:11:09 +0100
> "Martin Krause" <Martin.Krause at tqs.de> wrote:
> 
> > >> Does this mean, my toolchain is broken? I use ELDK4.2 for ARM.
> > > 
> > > I belive so, how many bytes is in dirent.namelen? alloca can not
> >
> > I compiled the original code with VLA with ELDK4.1 and there 
> > everything works. And also the '__builtin_alloca' Version works
> > with ELDK4.1.
> 
> I had a similar problem a few months ago, which turned out to be a
> stack alignment issue:
> 
>   http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg23202.html
> 
> the behavior was pretty similar, with code built with some compilers
> working (by chance) and some others breaking.
> 
> (The patch above is in U-boot since november something I think)

Is there any chance to have this fixed for all ARM variants during
this release cycle?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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