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Re: Add -mno-library-call to ia32


Geoff Keating wrote:

> So actually, every implementation is a 'conforming freestanding
> implementation', but some are 'conforming hosted
> implementations' too.

OK, I agree with that reading of clause 4.  So the language accepted in
a freestanding environment is a subset of that accepted in a hosted
environment.

> However, this is all somewhat orthogonal to the discussion.  GCC uses
> the -ffreestanding flag not to change its own behaviour, but to change
> what it expects from the environment.

Yep, and the question is whether compiling with -ffreestanding should
provide for an object file that doesn't have any externals to
libgcc[12].a.  The standard doesn't have a say about this, other than
that it obviously wants a freestanding implementation to support
compiling an OS kernel (and hence, whatever library you need shouldn't
require OS services).

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