PowerPC32 .gnu.attributes in crt files

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Alan Modra wrote:

> This unfortunately results in crt1.o, crti.o etc. being marked as
> incompatible with soft float;  The linker warns when building any
> soft float binary, and because crt1.o is usually the first file
> linked, builds the binary with an incorrect attribute.  Up until now,
> I'd fixed my own system by simply stripping the attribute section from
> /usr/lib/*crt*.o, but a system update reminded me that I should really
> fix this upstream.

If you want to build soft-float binaries, you need a sysroot with a 
soft-float build of glibc; soft-float is also incompatible with the 
hard-float shared libc.  Do you really have a use case where you want to 
use glibc's crt*.o files but no other static or shared libraries from 
glibc?

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Joseph S. Myers
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