[U-Boot] undefined reference to `abort'

[Matthias Weißer]

Am 05.12.2011 18:28, schrieb Mike Frysinger:
> On Monday 05 December 2011 11:43:09 Shadid, Bill wrote:
>> /opt/embedded/tools/usr/bin/../lib/gcc/powerpc-linux/4.2.2/m8540/libgcc.a(d
>> ivsf3.o): In function `__divsf3':
>> /opt/eldk/build/ppc-2008-04-01/work/usr/src/denx/BUILD/crosstool-0.43/buil
>> d/gcc-4.2.2-glibc-20070515T2025-eldk/powerpc-linux/gcc-4.2.2/gcc/config/sof
>> t-fp/divsf3.c:44: undefined reference to `abort'
> 
> looks like you should be using a diff cross-compiler.  or ppc should grow 
> private libgcc support.
> -mike

Or just don't use any floating point operations in a bootloader. There
seems to be some usages of floats around in u-boot but most (all?) of
them are compile time calculations.

Just curious: Bill, what is the use case for float at runtime?

Matthias