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Re: Question about the (arm-elf-gcc)compiler used for eCOSgeneration.
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- To: HuangQiang <jameshq at liverpool dot ac dot uk>
- Cc: eCos Discussion <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: 10 May 2002 05:47:26 -0600
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Question about the (arm-elf-gcc)compiler used for eCOSgeneration.
- References: <KIEBICHBADHFCLGCKOPDEEPOCLAA.jameshq@liv.ac.uk>
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:47, HuangQiang wrote:
> Hi all:
> The arm-elf-gcc cross compiler is used for ARM. Does it still follow the
> ARM-Thumb Procedure Call Standard(ATPCS)?
> Since a file called "hal_mk_defs.c" has been used in HAL, but it uses the
> main(), so when is this function called? how "hal_mk_defs.c" work inside the
> ecos?
>
The 'hal_mk_defs' program is only used during the build process to map generic
"C" structures onto assembly-time constants. It's not part of the eCos
application per se, rather part of the compile environment.
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