[PATCH 14/21] ARC: Enable __start as entry point vs. canonical _start

Vineet Gupta vineet.gupta1@synopsys.com
Tue Dec 18 22:06:00 GMT 2018


On 12/18/18 1:28 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> ARC linker scripts have defined __start as entry point so to not break
>> ABI for uClibc et al we allow __start for glibc as well
> I think this change and the test suite fixes should be folded into the
> initial addition of these files.  Or is there a reason for not doing
> this?

I deliberately kept them out to call out the fixes, sometimes these help new ports
which stumble into similar issues. And also ~2 years worth of work gets squashed
into a single blob is a shame :-)

-Vineet



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