Re: ARM/THUMB long calls stubs

[Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>]

Hi Sami,

> Hmm, it seems that -mlong-calls is not enough to force long calls. The
> patch itself worked (I _think_) but there are problems when a same source
> contains functions in different sections (far away from each other) that
> call each other. In my case this is an embedded system where most of
> routines are executed from flash but some routines, e.g. flash programming,
> have to be in RAM.
>
> Is there some easy way to work around this?

Have you tried using the __attribute__((long_call)) function annotation 
to tell the compiler to use long calls when accessing the distant 
functions ?

Cheers
  Nick