gcc 4.2.1 for arm & mips?

[David Daney]

Chris MacGregor wrote:
> Hi.  Specifically, I'm attempting:
> 
> gcc-4.2.1 (have been using 3.4.6 with all the other bits below the same)
> crosstool-0.43
> binutils-2.17
> glibc-2.3.6 (using linuxthreads)
> 
> for mips:
>   * gcc configured with --with-float=soft --with-arch=mips32 
> --with-tune=mips32 --with-endian=little and a bunch of other stuff (see 
> below)
>   * glibc configured with --without-fp and other stuff
> 
> for arm:
>   * gcc configured with --with-float=soft --with-cpu=xscale 
> --with-endian=little
>   * glibc configured with --without-fp and other stuff
> 
> On mips, the glibc stage of the build fails with:
> 
> In file included from 
> ../linuxthreads/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sysdep-cancel.h:22,
>                 from ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c:29:
> ../linuxthreads/internals.h:532: warning: C99 inline functions are not 
> supported; using GNU89
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c: In function '__libc_pread':
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c:69: error: memory input 7 is not 
> directly addressable
> ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/pread.c:86: error: memory input 7 is not 
> directly addressable

You could try looking at what the glibc 2.6 does.  I recently built that 
with GCC 4.2.

I wouldn't be surprised if that were the only thing in 2.3.6 that does 
not work with GCC 4.2


David Daney

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