[U-Boot] [PATCH] examples/standalone: Remove relocation compile flags for PowerPC

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Wed Jun 16 16:51:33 CEST 2010


Dear Timur Tabi,

In message <AANLkTild0OSohtPUQpqwsrZSAxPtCqnb_C2S0WTvIh1a at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> > we add support to U-Boot to conditionally check for the gcc version like
> > Linux to know when to use -fno-toplevel-reorder? =A0Or do we use a linker
> > script that would support more versions of gcc at the cost of more
> > complexity?
> 
> What happens if you use the flag on earlier versions of gcc?  If the
> flag is just silently ignored, then maybe it's not such a big deal to
> always include it, and just add a comment saying that it only works on
> gcc 4.2 or higher?

It raises an error.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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