porting newlib

["Hu Jia Yi" <jyhu at asmpt dot com>]

By following OS Specific Toolchain http://wiki.osdev.org/OS_Specific_Toolchain, 
I managed building my own cross compiler tool chain with newlib. I set my target to i386-pc-myos, 
and provided 17 empty stubs in syscalls.c and crt0.S in newlib/libc/sys/myos. 

The build process is smooth. But I have a few questions to this newlib porting.
1. when I use the cross-compiler 
    i386-pc-myos-gcc -o main main.c
the created exectuable is 119213 bytes while the executable created by native gcc (target: i486-linux-gnu)
is only 6451 bytes. This is because the cross compiler linked those unused stubs into the executable. 
Is there anyway to reduce the size of the cross-compiled executable by removing these unused stubs?

2. I use the following commands to build newlib to the target i386-elf

   ../binutils-2.18/configure --target=i386-elf --prefix=/home/root/cross
   make
   make install

   ../gcc-4.2.4/configure --target=i386-elf --prefix=/home/root/cross
   make all-gcc
   make install-gcc

   ../newlib-1.16.0/configure --target=i386-elf --prefix=/home/root/cross
   make all
   make install

and didn't provide stubs and crt0.S in this case. The newlib build process failed with 
the error "i386-elf-cc: command not found". I guess this is because I didn't provide stubs.
Can those stubs be regarded as external symbols when newlib is built like other static libraries?

3. If it is a pre-requisite to provide stubs, where should I place them, in libgloss/i386 or
in newlib/libc/sys/i386 (this sys/i386 doesn't exist initially)?

4. It is said in the doc that libgloss should be used to create library for embedded use. I
didn't find any clue on how libgloss can be used instead of subfolder "newlib". Could anyone enlighten me?


Best regards,
Hu Jia Yi