Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 64 bit arithmetic in the kernel | Date | Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:53:34 -0400 | From | Michael Richardson <> |
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>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes: Jamie> Michael Richardson wrote: >> This worked wonderfully, and I thank the several people who suggested that >> I could just use "ld -r" to do this. Why isn't libgcc1.a linked into the >> kernel somewhere when compiling with GCC already? Or are the symbols not >> exported perhaps?
Jamie> Because libgcc1.a is not installed with GCC. Jamie> libgcc.a is, but that includes libc-level calls.
NetBSD puts all of this into /sys/lib/libkern, but it isn't of libgcc1.a origin. Maybe the GCC/EGCS folk could be convinced to either install libgcc1.a somewhere useful, split the libc-level stuff out of libgcc.a, or something?
Jamie> A solution, though there doesn't seem to be a great need for one, is Jamie> this in linux/lib:
Jamie> libgcc=`gcc -print-file-name=libgcc.a` Jamie> files=`ar t "$libgcc" | egrep '^_.*[qhsdt]i[234]?\.o$'` Jamie> ar x "$libgcc" $files Jamie> ar rcs libgcc.a $files
Jamie> Link with the resulting local libgcc.a
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