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PATCH: Avoid link failures on arm-eabi with newlib
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: paul at codesourcery dot com
- Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 03:40:11 -0700
- Subject: PATCH: Avoid link failures on arm-eabi with newlib
- Reply-to: mark at codesourcery dot com
If newlib is configured with --enable-io-long-long, the arm-eabi
compilers will fail to link "hello, world". The problem is that we
use "-lgcc -lc -lgcc" to link. The call to printf (in libc) pulls in
udivmoddi4 (in libgcc) which is built with -fexceptions, and therefore
pulls in the EH routines (in libgcc), which pulls in abort (in libc) --
but we've already finished with libc at that point.
I think the most robust way to fix this is to use --start-group
... --end-group. Even GNU/Linux does that when using -static. (In
fact, I'd almost argue that the default in gcc.c ought to be to use
--start-group and --end-group around libgcc and libc; it's more
robust, even if it does result in perhaps somewhat slower link times.)
OK for csl-arm-branch and mainline?
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com
2005-10-01 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
* config/arm/unknown-elf.h (LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC): Define
using --start-group and --end-group.
Index: gcc/config/arm/unknown-elf.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/gcc/repos/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/arm/unknown-elf.h,v
retrieving revision 1.32.10.3
diff -c -5 -p -r1.32.10.3 unknown-elf.h
*** gcc/config/arm/unknown-elf.h 18 Nov 2004 15:57:36 -0000 1.32.10.3
--- gcc/config/arm/unknown-elf.h 1 Oct 2005 03:24:56 -0000
***************
*** 87,91 ****
--- 87,97 ----
#ifndef SUBTARGET_CPU_DEFAULT
#define SUBTARGET_CPU_DEFAULT TARGET_CPU_arm7tdmi
#endif
+ /* The libgcc udivmod functions may throw exceptions. If newlib is
+ configured to support long longs in I/O, then printf will depend on
+ udivmoddi4, which will depend on the exception unwind routines,
+ which will depend on abort, which is defined in libc. */
+ #undef LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC
+ #define LINK_GCC_C_SEQUENCE_SPEC "--start-group %G %L --end-group"