[PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix bootwrapper builds with newer gcc versions

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat May 3 00:09:38 EST 2008


On May 2, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:

>> GCC 4.4.x looks to be adding support for generating out-of-line  
>> register
>> saves/restores based on:
>>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01678.html
>>
>> This breaks the bootwrapper as we'd need to link with libgcc to get  
>> the
>> implementation of the register save/restores.
>>
>> To workaround this issue, we just stole the save/restore code from  
>> gcc
>> and simplified it down for our needs (integer only).
>
> Why can't we link with libgcc, instead?

Do you have or can you generate a ppc64 toolchain with this patch in it?

- k



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