Dear Wolfgang,
On 2010-11-15 11:54:07, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
I notice that the patch affects the size of the resulting U-Boot images.
The size increase you noted seems to completely go away when adding --gc-sections to LDFLAGS, but this option apparently brings its own issues when the linker discards important unreferenced bits:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg41762.html http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg42063.html
These problems can be fixed within linker scripts, but I think it might be safer to use --gc-sections for diagnostic purposes only...
MPC8xx boards break with long lists of multiple definitions of symbols, like that:
Configuring for FPS860L board... lib/libgeneric.o: In function `vsprintf': /home/wd/git/u-boot/work/lib/vsprintf.c:480: multiple definition of `vsprintf' ...
Have you seen that, too?
Unfortunately I have not been able to reproduce these errors with the toolchain I am using (gcc 4.4.5 and binutils 2.20.1.20100303, based on emdebian squeeze packages). Can you please point me to the toolchain you are using?
Regards,