RE: Cross-Compiling Help

[Kerr Shannon-SKERR1 <shannon dot kerr at motorola dot com>]

We used the same binutils 2-13.1 release for both.

-Shannon

-----Original Message-----

>The problem, then, is not in GCC itself, but in the binutils.
>I'm terribly ignorant on this issue  - the only suggestion I can come out 
>with is to ask for help and cleverer suggestions on the binutils mailing 
>list :-)

>At 12.08 19/12/2002 -0600, Kerr Shannon-SKERR1 wrote:
>>Well, I was able to extract the .text section thanks to the suggestion
from
>>Ruppert (thanks).  The comparison wasn't pretty.  Actually, I am trying
just
>>a simple "hello_world" type program and the diff of the objdump didn't
look
>>good at all.  Ruppert, can you or anyone else tell me how to get the map
>>file using gcc?  I'm not familiar with the GCC toolset and I would like to
>>see the difference between the map files for the two objects.
>>
>>Also, we compared the assembly code generated by gcc (gcc -S) and the code
>>generated by the cross-compiler gcc and the native gcc were identical!  We
>>then executed gcc -c for each and compared the unlinked binaries
(assembled
>>code) and the two binaries were again an exact match.  But when we go to
>>link the objects (gcc -o foo.o foo.c), that's when everything changes.
>>
>>The stripped binaries match in size, but using cmp to compare the two,
they
>>do not match.  I compared the objdumps and they do match up to a point and
>>then the rest of the file does not match (only about 1/10th match and then
>>the assembly instructions are very different after that).
>>
>>I really appreciate everyone's help in this.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Mr. Shannon Kerr