Subject: Re: New ARM ELF toolchain patch
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Ben Harris <bjh21@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm
Date: 04/24/2001 15:45:09
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 12:34 AM 4/24/2001 +0100, you wrote:
> ><URL:ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/bjh21/armelf/
> >      arm-elf-toolchain-20010424.diff>
> >
> >This is updated for the latest imports into gnu/dist/toolchain.  The only
> >substantive change is that structure alignment is back to the traditional
> >eight bits.  It seems to build an arm26 kernel correctly, at least.
> >
> >Now, where did I put that TODO list?
>
> So when are the rest of the ELF changes going to be made? (e.g. shareable
> code between arm32 & arm26).

For practical purposes, shareable code is here already.  I do all my arm26
builds with a compiler that defaults to -march=armv3 -mapcs-32.  There's a
small glitch in the area of exception handling, which Richard will be
fixing Real Soon Now, but I don't think any in-tree binaries are affected.

>  Shared libraries would be nice.

Yes, they would.  Feel like working on them?

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>