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brendan@dgs.monash.edu.au (Brendan Simon) writes: > I have built a powerpc cross compiler with eabi. I notice that main > calls __eabi. It apparently sets up the eabi environment (what ever > that means). I have seen some startup code stub the __eabi so that it > returns straight away. Is this safe ? How important is the eabi > environment ? Look in gcc/config/rs6000/eabi.asm. It is the general purpose hook to initialize things. Currently it: 1) Sets up r2 and r13 to hold the 2 small data pointers (ie, support for the -msdata switch). 2) Relocates all pointers used if loaded at a different location than it was linked for, providing all modules were compiled with -mrelocatable or -mrelocatable-lib. 3) Call the C++ constructors. Obviously in the future, it may be used for other initializations. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax) ________________________________________________ To get help for the crossgcc list, send mail to crossgcc-request@cygnus.com with the text 'help' (without the quotes) in the body of the message.