Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
In message 20090712192216.GA1686@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote:
Note that this is not a question of ARM versus other architectures. On ARM the use of libgcc should be the default like on all other architectures - only if needed it should be possible to switch on a don't-use-libgcc mode, but this should then be independent of architecture, either.
which is the case no arch are force to switch the current patch just allow to switch to this mode.
My understanding was that the current patch (1) makes not using lingcc the default for ARM, and (2) makes it the default for ARM for all too chains.
Please show me how to activate the feature from the command line, as I seem to have missed this option (and the documentation for it).
This is where I disagree. Why should we automatically assume that there are no sane ARM toolchains?
unfortunately most of the arm toolchains are not sane for every point of view as you can not build U-Boot, kernel and userland with the same optimized toolchain most of the time.
But ARM is just one out of many different architectures, and there are eventually (sufficently) sane ARM tool chains available, too. This is the default case, and shall remain it.
For broken tool chains (ARM or other) the feature can be activated (when running make).
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk