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Re: Is using the newlib optimised routines in side the Dsr (suppose if the dsr calls for every 10ms space)
Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:
> On 2007-10-05, Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
>> The newlib library is not used for anything in eCos. My understanding
>> is that newlib is just there in order to get the toolchain to compile.
>
> That's something I've never understood. I use gcc for a
> half-dozen non-eCos embedded targets, and never had to use
> newlib to get the toolchains to compile. They've always
> compiled fine without it.
My experience is opposite. I never succeeded to get cross-compiler for
embedded target without a link to newlib tree from withing gcc tree, and
then newlib is compiled and installed along with gcc. Maybe it's fixed
in recent GCCs though.
-- Sergei.
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