Re: [2.6 patch] Use -ffreestanding? (fwd)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> 
> for the kernel, it would be logical to use -ffreestanding. The kernel is 
> not a hosted environment with a standard C library.
> 
> Linus agreed that it would make sense.

Note that while I agree that it sounds sensible, it would be good to have 
somebody specify exactly what changes from the use of "-ffreestanding".

I _assume_ that all the things that gcc takes for granted are things that 
Linux already has its own definitions for, and that -ffreestanding doesn't 
actually change anything for at least the regular architectures. But if 
there is any object code changes, can you check those out and explain 
them?

		Linus
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