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Re: uclibc patches
- From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps dot m at gmx dot net>
- To: Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:33:22 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: uclibc patches
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Peter S. Mazinger schrieb:
>
> > Would patches to add support for tuple
> > arch-*-linux-uclibc*
> > be acceptable?
>
> I'm not sure *-*-linux-uclibc would be the right choice, as it suggests
> running Linux with uclibc as your C library, which is something the
> binutils need not care about. I could, however, see a case for
> *-*-uclinux due to the ABI differences and the need for relocation
> information in fully linked executables.
Maybe for binutils it does not make sense, but for gcc (libstdc++)
it will be needed.
Peter
>
> I am working on implementing "armelf_uclinux" and "armelfb_uclinux"
> emulations which would emit ELF binaries with relocation information for
> ARM CPUs. I'm, however, unsure about whom to contact for a hint on what
> to change to denote the ABI differences in the ELF files.
>
> Simon
>
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