Re: [PATCH 2 of 2] cc/gcc: add support for a statcally linked shared core for static toolchain

[Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:33 AM, Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 6:56 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> # HG changeset patch
>>> # User Bryan Hundven <bryanhundven@gmail.com>
>>> # Date 1287435325 25200
>>> # Node ID fa5bd6f1ea1aa117771e4c53fefaba16ba603d82
>>> # Parent ?8091950d99a8b10bbff4b7a35518380afeefc5f6
>>> cc/gcc: add support for a statcally linked shared core for static toolchain
>>>
>> What is the benefit of this ? I see that you never really answered
>> Yann about this.
>>
>> ?- Arnaud
>>
>
> I personally don't see the point of statically linking the shared
> core. Maybe it might be useful for other types of toolchains? *shrug*
> That is why it is not in patch 1 of 2.
>
> Yann asked about it, so I gave it a spin.
>
Has he ? The only thing I can find about this is (taken out of context):

Yann E. Morin said:
[...]
> What I meant was "do we want the core gcc (static and shared) to also be
> statically linked?"
>
> I guess you can forget about the two core gcc-s. Lets keep them as they are
> for now, that is they get dynamically linked.
>
[...]

But actually, there is a single case I can see this would be needed:
the baremetal case, as unless error of my part, it is taken out of the
second core compiler. I shall take a look at that code later on, I've
not been dealing with it for quite some time.

 - Arnaud

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