arm-elf multilib issues

Samuel Tardieu sam@rfc1149.net
Fri Oct 2 19:24:00 GMT 2009


>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> writes:

Paul> IMHO building lots of multilibs by default significantly increases
Paul> toolchain size and build time for little actual benefit. ARM CPUs
Paul> are generally backwards compatible and we only have one important
Paul> ABI variant, so very few multilibs are required for a functional
Paul> toolchain.

I have had problem in the past with Cortex M3 based processors because
libraries were not compiled with the Thumb-2 instruction set (which is
the only one supported by those ARM CPUs) variant.

  Sam
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