Re: 2.3.26pre2 compile error

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl)
Fri, 05 Nov 1999 09:42:25 -0300


Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch> said:
> >>>>> "Peter" == Peter Samuelson <peter@wire.cadcamlab.org> writes:
> Peter> [Keith Owens]
> >> Did you really mean to link libgcc.a into the kernel? That cannot
> >> be right, the kernel does not use external libraries.

> Peter> I don't think it's right either, but ... where would *you*
> Peter> suggest finding a __divdi3 function? In a sense libgcc is not
> Peter> really an external library, since it is part of gcc itself. I
> Peter> guess the alternative for the kernel is just not to use any
> Peter> functionality that gcc needs libgcc math functions for.

> Then you extract that single function from libgcc and put it in the
> kernel instead of linking in the entire libgcc.a

That is ld(1)'s job.

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