[U-Boot] U-Boot Bug with newer GCC

Wolfgang Denk
2013-02-01T21:42:38Z

Dear Jeroen Hofstee,

In message <510BFE48.3060206@myspectrum.nl> you wrote:
> Hi Wolfgang,
>
> On 02/01/2013 12:31 PM, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >> We recently tried a new toolchain with GCC 4.7.2.
> >> If compiled with the new toolchain the feature CONFIG_AUTO_COMPLETE isn't working.
> > We have been using GCC 4.7.2 for several months now, on many systems.
> > No such problems have been reported before, so I speculate if this is
> > really a problem with mainline code?
> The twister board has the same problem, tested
> 4e5eb45898b6f05fef3a4690399726c03bc1f398 with twister_config /
> eldk 5.3 on a twister board (and it traps). So it does occur in mainline,

Interesting - did you ever report this problem on the mailing list?
I cannot find any such information in the archives. When was this
observed for the dfirst time?

> but it must be a combination of board config and code or something,
> since also Albert did not know / didn't have this problem.

So you think it's ARM specific?

Sebastian - I think you did not mention yet which SoC you're using -
is this also ARM?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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