[OpenBIOS] cross-pcc compilation issue with GCC 4.5.0

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at siriusit.co.uk
Mon Apr 26 17:50:50 CEST 2010


Segher Boessenkool wrote:

> Newer GCC is using a part of the ABI that older GCC did not.  This creates
> better code, and is not a bug.  What _is_ arguably a bug is not using the
> libgcc that comes with the compiler, but something else.
> 
> Why can OpenBIOS not use libgcc?

Good question. Blue came up with a patch here: 
http://lists.openbios.org/pipermail/openbios/2010-January/004475.html 
but while it worked at compile time, it failed at runtime. If you could 
fix that, we'd all be very grateful :)


ATB,

Mark.

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