[U-Boot] [PATCH] ARM: enable CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC by default (re-send to the correct address)

[Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>]

Hello Daniel,

(not sure how in my previous reply I managed to drop Masahiro off the
discussion; fixing that, and apologies)

On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 01:39:17 +0200, Daniel Schwierzeck
<daniel.schwierzeck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Am 02.07.2015 um 00:04 schrieb Albert ARIBAUD:
> > Hello Wolfgang,
> > 
> > On Wed, 01 Jul 2015 23:50:17 +0200, Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> wrote:
> > 
> >> Actually I think it is inherently wrong to enable
> >> CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC by default.
> >>
> >> This option is intended as a workaround for broken toolchains, until
> >> these get fixed.  By enabling this by default, we miss do not notice
> >> the problems our tool chain has, and therefore these never get fixed,
> >> i. e. brokenness grows.  This cannot be good.
> >>
> >> CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC should only be an emergency-opt-in, but
> >> never ever a default setting.
> > 
> > Well then, should we not revisit commits c3dd823 and 7bfd5ee, which
> > enable CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC for sh and mips respectively? Either
> > we allow it by default for all architectures, or we forbid it by
> > default for all architectures, but I don't like the idea of a
> > heterogeneous per-arch default setting.
> > 
> 
> CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC should be removed. If an architecture supports
> a private libgcc, then it should always use it. I think for U-Boot it is
> better and safer to have all code under control instead of pulling in
> external code from toolchains which are often somehow broken.
> 
> Speaking for MIPS we have boards with all combinations of Big
> Endian/Little Endian and Hard Float/Soft Float. You need an own libgcc
> binary for each FPU variant, but almost no toolchain supports this. Thus
> you need different toolchains for different boards. This is a PITA for
> users or developers who want to use buildman. Always using
> CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC=yes was the only painless way so far. That is
> why we chose to enable CONFIG_USE_PRIVATE_LIBGCC by default.
> 
> BTW: Linux kernel or Barebox always use a private libgcc.

Seems like there is room for debate on the topic, then, which I'll
start in another topic.

From a short-term perspective, I will defer the present patch because
applying it makes U-Boot support fifteen less targets than not applying
it, which I think we can agree goes in the cons list of both approaches.

> -- 
> - Daniel

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.