[U-Boot] EABI 4.2

[Simon Kagstrom]

(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)

// Simon