Building newlib without -mhard-float

[Rick Mann]

On Sep 7, 2007, at 9:02 AM, Dave Korn wrote:

>   Linking is strictly in command line order.  As it runs along the  
> commandline
> it picks up undefined references; when it finds a new library or  
> file it
> resolves any outstanding references *but* it doesn't memorize all  
> the syms
> from that file and re-use them to fill in undefined references that  
> turn up
> *later* on the command-line.  See also the --start-group and --end- 
> group
> options to ld.

Thanks for the explanation. Shortly after I sent that email I  
realized that it must be doing this.

>   However, the real underlying cause of the problem is that you're  
> doing it
> wrong.  Don't invoke ld directly.  Use the gcc compiler driver, and  
> it will
> automatically get all the startup files and libraries in the right  
> places for
> you.

So, I am actually not calling ld directly. I was, but I finally  
figured out how to call gcc and not have it throw a bunch of stuff in  
the wrong places. I only started with ld because that's what various  
examples I had started with. I now call:

arm-elf-gcc -Wl,-Map,mapfile.txt -mcpu=xscale -nostdlib -Wall -Wextra  
-Wredundant-decls -pedantic -Wshadow -O2 -Xlinker --script=link.lds - 
o h.elf obj/start.o obj/Util.o obj/glue.o obj/lcd.o obj/main.o -lc - 
lm -lgcc


So, the order is still important.

-- 
Rick