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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Fix bootwrapper builds with newer gcc versions
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 13:54:15 +0200
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> GCC 4.4.x looks to be adding support for generating out-of-line 
> register
> saves/restores based on:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-04/msg01678.html
>
> This breaks the bootwrapper as we'd need to link with libgcc to get the
> implementation of the register save/restores.
>
> To workaround this issue, we just stole the save/restore code from gcc
> and simplified it down for our needs (integer only).

Why can't we link with libgcc, instead?


Segher