[U-Boot] [PATCH] powerpc/nand spl: link libgcc

Stefan Roese sr at denx.de
Tue Dec 14 09:09:27 CET 2010


On Tuesday 14 December 2010 00:06:11 Kim Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:00:51 -0600
> 
> Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com> wrote:
> > Recent GCC (4.4+) performs out-of-line epilogues in some cases, when
> > optimizing for size.  It causes a link error for _restgpr_30_x (and
> > similar) if libgcc is not linked.
> > 
> > It actually increases size with very small binaries, due to the fixed
> > size of the out-of-line code, and not having any functions that actually
> > need to restore more than 2 or 3 registers.  But I don't see a way to
> > turn it off, other than asking GCC to optimize for speed -- which may
> > also increase size for some boards.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood at freescale.com>
> > ---
> 
> Stefan, can you please pick this up with my:
> 
> Acked-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips at freescale.com>

I can do this if Wolfgang has no objections. So I'll wait a short while and 
pull it onto next then upstream pushing.

Cheers,
Stefan

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