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Re: Configuring for bare hw ia32 PC's
duane> If you look at the makefile - it builds GCC in 2 stages stage 1 - is
duane> just a straight up C compiler, nothing else. No standard library.
That
duane> should be enough to build your kernel as I describe.
jonathan> I gree, though I recommend building the kernel with the second
jonathan> round gcc. [snip]
[snip]
jonathan> Yes. But having done that, don't try to use stage1 GCC to
build your
jonathan> kernel. Use stage2 GCC for everything, if only to reduce the
number of
jonathan> variants of tools that can hurt you.
Wait - hold on for a second.
The stage1 GCC has *zero* header files, and only 'libgcc'.
White lie: GCC supplied <limits.h> and <stddef.h> are present
(look in the 'lib' directory)
The benefit here is there is no accidental #include of a user space
header file. Yes, you can do the same with "--nostdinc" and other
command line hackery :-(
It really depends on your needs, fears, etc. Perhaps my fear is over
blow - why? Because linux x86 builds with "gcc" - the default compiler
and uses the "--nostdinc" trick.
BTW - you might also want to check out the -fnobuiltin options.
-Duane.