Re: eCos 3.0 beta 1 punch list #1

[Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>]

> The synthetic target builds fine, but there is a run-time problem with
> cxxsupp. It appears that libgcc now assumes that glibc has done some
> initialization, setting up the %gs register to point at per-thread
> data. This came up previously in the context of the -fstack-protector
> flag, see the mailing list archives, but at the time we decided we
> could live with the problem. It looks like there are now more
> dependencies on getting this sorted - which I suspect will prove
> challenging.

What gcc and glibc are you using? For me cxxsupp runs and passes. So as always, it seems to very from system to system:

lunn@londo:~/eCos/work$ gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
Target: i486-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Debian 4.3.3-3' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.3 --program-suffix=-4.3 --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-objc-gc --enable-mpfr --enable-targets=all --enable-cld --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=i486-linux-gnu --host=i486-linux-gnu --target=i486-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.3.3 (Debian 4.3.3-3) 

$ /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library stable release version 2.7, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.3.2.
Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.26.1<< system on 2009-01-04.

         Andrew