Re: [PATCH libgloss]Using spec files to support two version of newlib library in one tool-chain release

[Craig Howland <howland at LGSInnovations dot com>]

On 08/12/2014 03:41 AM, Bin Cheng wrote:
> ...
> 1) Build two version of newlib, one is the normal version, which is used as
> default; the other one is built by enabling all code size tailoring
> features.
> 2) For the tailored version of library, we manually rename
> libc.a/libgloss.a(/libstdc++.a) into libc_s.a/libgloss_s.a(/libstdc++_s.a).
> These renamed libraries are installed to the same target directory and
> coexist with normal version ones.
> 3) specs files like nano.specs/rdimon.specs/nosys.specs are introduced in
> order to automatically choose wanted version of library for linking.  In
> other words, GCC can choose libc_s.a or libc.a according to specs files
> provided by end-users.
>
> This patch is to support this.  With this feature, developers only need to
> specify "-specs=nano.specs" to link the small foot-print lib*_s.a libraries.
> The patch adds new specs file "nano.specs" as well as modifies
> rdimon.specs/nosys.specs as necessary.  Though nosys.specs is changed, the
> default behavior won't be changed unless "-specs=nano.specs" is specified.
Bin:

One thought on word choice for consideration:  the new library files are named 
with an "_s" suffix, yet the option and file names use "nano", which has no 
letters in common with the _s.  Presumably the "s" comes from small or size.  
Might it be better to use "small" or "size" instead of "nano"?  Or something 
else that more readily associates?  (Not a big thing, but would become more 
important were another option to be added later.)

Craig