Hi Jorgen,
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Jorgen Lundman lundman@lundman.net wrote:
Uninitialized global and static variables reside in .bss and are set to zero during relocation. Initialised globals and static variables go into .data
Alas, I know from experience that Microsoft's C compiler does not initialise global variables (to make it faster one assumes) which has led to hours of debugging.
Well actually, it's not the compiler/linker that initialised .bss - it's the dynamic loader. In the case of U-Boot, it's the Flash->RAM relocation code.
If u-boot has decided that going without Microsoft compiling support is A-OK, then that is A-OK with me too. :)
I don't know of anyone that has even tried, let alone succeeded in compiling U-Boot with a Microsoft compiler. I've heard of cygwin attempts (that from memory have also failed miserably)
Generally speaking, gnu based tools are your best bet. Speaking of which, we really should have a list of 'supported tools' which are known to successfully build U-Boot...
Regards,
Graeme