From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Tue Feb 5 08:31:28 2008 Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2008 14:26:52 +0100 (CET) From: Frank Naumann X-X-Sender: fnaumann@localhost.localdomain To: mint Subject: Re: [MiNT] strip In-Reply-To: <47A85ECA.1040307@freesbee.fr> Message-ID: References: <47A732CA.9000803@freesbee.fr> <47A85ECA.1040307@freesbee.fr> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on relay.boerde.de X-Spam-Status: No, hits=- tagged_above=-50.5 required=7.0 WHITELISTED X-Spam-Level: X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: fnaumann@boerde.de Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Hello! > 1) Alignment. > GCC 2.95 (and current GCC 4.2.3) have a default alignment of 2 bytes. > However, binutils 2.13 have a default alignment of 4 bytes. I configured > binutils 2.18 for a default alignement of 2, in order to be consistent with > GCC. It works perfectly, no byte is wasted. However, that default alignment > of 2 might not be the best choice for our platform. That's why I opened a new > thread about alignment some time ago. Now I will have more time to continue > that discussion. My opinion: We stay for now with 2 byte alignment. If we switch to gcc 4.2 wen can still go for a 4 byte alignment (and provide a binutils package with 4 byte alignment too that stritcly require a gcc 4.2 package and vice versa; that can be easily done with rpm). > a.out-mint format (from the Sparemint binaries). The advantage of not using > a.out-mint is to avoid unnecessary non-standard patching. This change seems > good, but it needs the opinion of more people. A new thread should be opened > for that. I see this as advantage too. Less patches are much better. And if it's exactly the same I see no reason to support our own format (this is a waste of time). Regards, Frank -- ATARI FALCON 060 // MILAN 060 ----------------------------- http://sparemint.org/ e-Mail: fnaumann@boerde.de