[U-Boot] EABI 4.2

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Tom,

In message <20100317161258.76fee35c@marrow.netinsight.se> Simon
Kagstrom wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:53:36 -0500
> Praveen G K <praveen.gk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I had a similar problem a few months ago, which turned out to be a
> > > stack alignment issue:
> > >
> > > =A0http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg23202.html
> > >
> > > the behavior was pretty similar, with code built with some compilers
> > > working (by chance) and some others breaking.
> > =
> 
> > Great! This does work when added to cpu/arm1176/start.S
> > Is there any specific reason why this was not added to the arm11 stream?
> 
> Well, none other than that I didn't realise it affected other platforms
> as well. Looking at the tip, it seems like pretty much all ARM
> platforms are susceptible to this issue. So a mass-fix would probably
> be in place.

This seems serious enough to me that we should try to get this fixed
in the upcoming release.  Do you think you can manage this?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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