[uClibc]Re: simple printf does not work........

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Jul 17, 2002 at 09:48:24AM +0600, Visakan Pirabusikamani wrote:
> Fine,
> 
> Please enlighten me on the following points
> 1. arm-uclinux-gcc is used by the uclinux people to compile the appilacation,
> and the kernel is compiled with arm-elf-gcc. What is the different bet   
> those two? ( there was a discussion in the mailing list but, How it affects 
> the final binaries.)

arm-uclinux* is just a toolchain that is built slightly
differently from the arm-elf-* toolchains.  You can use 
either one. 

> 2. Some of the development platforms uses FLAT binaries. uClinux2.0x also 
> support this binaries, When we create flat binaries the stripped elf is 
> converted into flat and zipped. Does arm-elf-gcc has the ability to elf2flt 
> conversion?

It does _if_ you build your own toolchains using the stuff I have
provided.  This is quite new, so no guartantees that it works
perfectly yet...

> 3. When we linked the object with the library  the kernel linker scrtipt 
> arrange the binaries so that it Can execute it. my linker script is 
> (basically from home.at/uclinux) supporting XIP and the kernel also.
> When I was using uC-libc(old one) I did not get rel.data but with the 
> new ulibc I got it . does this cause the problem(hanging when I open)

Not certain.  Sounds like the linker script is not matched up
with your goal of doing XIP...

 -Erik

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