I admit, I'm unlikely to offer much good advice, as when I've done
this, neither have I cross compiled, nor have I run on an emulated
embedded system :)
My only suggestion is to try to eliminate potential causes. If you
link in the .o files directly, does it work? Have you tried a newer
gcc cross compiler?
Brian
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:16 PM, <travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:07:03PM -0800, Brian Budge wrote:
>> I'm not sure I understand. I believe that in the past I've done what
>> you're talking about without issues. Do you have a minimal example?
>
> What follows is a minimal example of what I'm trying to do.
> Problem is, on my test system,
> gcc version 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646) (dot 1)
> it works. On my target system, an embedded system that I'm targetting
> with a cross-compiling gcc 3.x, and emulating, it fails.
> My co-worker is reporting on his system that it is segfaulting, and that
> may well be what's happening on the embedded/emulated system. I know
> that's a little vague, but the target system is very complex and
> I'm still learning it. Troubleshooting is painful... at this point
> I'm inferring errors from log files, as opposed to debugging with gdb
> as I would normally.
>
> 14:03:41 travis@sevenheavens 2 0 bash$ cat main.c
> int main () {
> weakcall();
> }
> 14:07:53 travis@sevenheavens 2 0 bash$ cat call.c
> extern void weak() __attribute__ ((weak));
>
> void weakcall () { weak(); }
> 14:07:59 travis@sevenheavens 2 0 bash$ cat weak.c
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> void weak() { printf("hi\n"); }
> 14:08:01 travis@sevenheavens 2 0 bash$ cat Makefile
> #! /usr/bin/make -f
>
> all: main.o weak.o
> gcc main.o foo.o
>
> libweak.a: weak.o
> ar -rcs libweak.a weak.o
>
> libcall.a: call.o
> ar -rcs libcall.a call.o
>
> .PHONY: lib
> lib: libweak.a libcall.a main.o
> gcc main.o -L. -lweak -lcall
>
> .PHONY: clean
> clean:
> rm *.a *.o a.out
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