what exactly is a "patch," anyway?

[Michael N. Moran]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> Michael N. Moran wrote:
>> # armv5b-softfloat-linux-gcc -malignment-traps -mapcs-32 -c a.c
>> cc1: error: invalid option 'alignment-traps'
>> cc1: error: invalid option 'apcs-32'
> 
> Googling for the error message brings up three hits.  One of them is
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=110621577317150&w=2
> which says
> 
>> Both -malignment-traps and -mapcs-32 options are no longer needed in
>> gcc-3.4.2 (and hence removed). You can either use a newer kernel
>> ... which fixes this or modify the arch/arm/Makefile file.

Errr.. some sort of blindness or tunnel vision caused me to see
only the latter course of action. I didn't notice that it had
been fixed in new versions. :O)

> It looks like 2.6.11 checks for the option being legal:
> http://lxr.linux.no/source/arch/arm/Makefile#L61
> says
> 
> CFLAGS_ABI      :=$(call cc-option,-mapcs-32,-mabi=apcs-gnu)
> 
> cc-option is defined in Makefile as
> 
> cc-option = $(shell if $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(1) -S -o /dev/null -xc /dev/null \
>              > /dev/null 2>&1; then echo "$(1)"; else echo "$(2)"; fi ;)
> 
> so it looks like they use -mapcs-32 if $CC doesn't barf on it,
> else they use -mabi=apcs-gnu.
> 
> So which version of the kernel were you using?  Something earlier than 
> 2.6.11?

Yep. I am using the 3.2.0 of snapgear. In their tree, the kernel
directory is linux-2.6.x, but "uname -a" of the running kernel
says:

Linux ADI-Coyote 2.6.9-uc0 #22 Sun Sep 11 14:51:27 EDT 2005 armv5teb unknown

BTW, I used the sanitized headers to build the toolchain,
so my memory of this problem came from the building of snapgear,
not during my use of crosstool (its all becoming "clear" to me ...
now ;-)


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