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From: Stephan Linz <linz@mazet.de>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:14:30 +0100
Subject: [U-Boot-Users] Patch: Changes to support GCC 3.3.x
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Am Donnerstag,  4. M?rz 2004 15:00 schrieb Yuli Barcohen:
> GCC 3.3.x changed handling of global variables explicitly initialised to
> zero. It puts them to .bss section and not .data as it was in older GCC
> versions. This change breaks environment redundancy feature. Attached
> patch fixes the problem.

short comment/question: Is the result backward compatible to older pre 3.x 
gcc ? There are some targets (ex. Nios) with gcc 2.95 support only.


Best Regards,
Stephan Linz