[ECOS] Re: Newlib usage in eCos (tool-chain question)

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:

>    Grant> I've always wondered why newlib is required as part of the
>    Grant> toolchain build process, but never found an explanation.
>    Grant> Why is it not possible to build gcc w/o a library?
>
> Theoretically you should be able to build gcc without newlib.
> However that is not the way the gcc maintainers will typically
> build things: for a cross-compiler newlib provides the
> run-time for the gcc testsuite. Hence if you build the
> compiler without newlib you are doing something different from
> the gcc maintainers, and that involves an element of risk.
> [...]

I certainly have no real, practical complaints about building
gcc with newlib, I just always wondered why it was "required"
for cases like eCos which doesn't use it [my current non-eCos
project does use it].

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