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Subject: Re: [MiNT] mshort support
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>
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On Sat, 2009-12-19 at 11:25 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm currently compiling FreeMiNT and all its modules (including XaAES) for 
> the first time (and I'm really frightened by the number of warnings).
> 
> It seems that the kernel and all its modules are compiled with -mshort, am I 
> right ?
> In this case, all the libraries used by FreeMiNT and its modules must be 
> provided with -mshort, for all supported CPUs. This includes at least libgcc 
> and libgem.
> 
> Severe problems can appear when mixing libraries compiled with different 
> short/CPU options.
> 
> If the above is right, I will include all the required mshort libraries in 
> my future cross-compiler distributions.

The kernel is compiled with -mshort and it's modules. I've never really
looked at the build options itself, but feel free to provide patches on
this.

Alan.


