On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 08:58:49AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 08:46, Paul Mundt wrote: > > The other thing you seem to have ignored is that pretty much everyone has > > such a system, it's only crippled platforms like blackfin and h8300 that > > don't support toolchains without the prefix. > > "cripple" is exactly the right word. why in the world do you want to > cripple people that dont need it ? attempting to support busted > toolchains by forcing even more symbol prefix crap throughout an arch > makes no sense at all. use the -fno-leading-underscore gcc option if > you want to re-use a non-standard symbol prefixed elf compiler to > build an arch. My main consideration is for some SH-2 compilers where only bare metal targets exist which could theoretically be used for the kernel, too. I've avoided tying them in precisely because there wasn't a very clean way to support the prefixed and non-prefixed case dynamically. On the other hand, in those cases I don't think anyone actually cares about the ABI, so having gcc not emit the prefix in the first place could be a valid alternative, I'll give that a try, as that would simplify things a fair bit. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
