Re: [arm] Inhibit startup code for SymbianOS

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Paul Brook wrote:

> On Thursday 30 September 2004 17:16, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>  
>
> > Paul Brook wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > The patch below stops gcc building/using the crt* startup code for
> > > SymbianOS. That OS provides its own versions of this code.
> > >
> > > Tested by building arm-symbian-symbianelf cross.
> > > Ok for mainline and csl-arm-branch?
> > >      
> > If you're sure about this, yes.
> >
> > I had thought we might still need crtbegin/crtend to register exception
> > regions, etc.  Is that all taken care of in some other way?
> >    
>
> Yes. Symbian have their own startup code to handle this, though I admit I 
> don't know how it works.
>
> The EH tables have a special section type, so that can be used to identify 
> them. It's possible that the linker will need to do something special to mark 
> the location of locate the tables, but that's a different problem.
>  
Fair enough.

Thanks,

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