Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 01:26:32 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New toolchain and root filesystem available Message-ID: <20011030092632.0A1B7380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20011030090332.U549-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 10:53:21PM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > > We have shifted over to supporting a much newer toolchain, based
> > > approximately binutils 2.11.2 and gcc 3.0.1. This combination appears to
> > > generate noticably better code but more importantly changes a few critica
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> > > parts of the ELF ABI. This means that you will need a fresh set of
> > > binaries to continue to work properly. I've uploaded a fresh toolchain an
d
> > > a matching set of binaries:
> > >
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~dfr/ia64-toolchain-29102001.tar.gz
> > > http://people.freebsd.org/~dfr/ia64-root-29102001.tar.gz
> >
> > I get major breakages. I'll look at it tomorrow. It's time to
> > go to bed now...
> >
> > FYI,
>
> The header files think we are C++ because of the '-Wp,-+' flag that I used
> to allow the C++ comments in Intel's efi headers. Gcc only warns about
> these in '-ansi' mode so you can use this patch. You also need
> -fno-builtin to stop gcc from turning printf into puts (bah). The new
toolchain encodes __FreeBSD__ etc. into the specs file so you don't need
> to play games with the 'CC' variable any more either.
Use -ffreestanding instead of -fno-builtin. That's the officially blessed
way of saying that its not linking with libc.
Cheers,
-Peter
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