[U-Boot] Compiler Question

[Maik Hänig]

Dear Wolfgang Denk,

should I better use gcc 4.4?

And yes I'm working on ARM.


Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Maik Hänig

Am 07.02.2011 11:17, schrieb Wolfgang Denk:
> Dear =?UTF-8?B?TWFpayBIw6RuaWc=?=,
>
> In message<4D4FBEAD.1030703 at hrz.tu-chemnitz.de>  you wrote:
>>
>> If I compile the same uboot with gcc 4.5.2, binutils 2.11 and glibc 2.13
>> the uboot compiles also successfully but it didn't work on the taget
>> system. The uboot don't have any outputs on the debug console.
>
> There are a number of known (and probably more unknown) compiler bugs
> in GCC 4.5.x.
>
> Workarounds for some of them have been added recently in mainline, so
> you might try switching to current top of tree instead (especially if
> you're on an ARM system).
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>