[oe] [PATCH][v3 3/4] uClibc: redo configuration

[Khem Raj]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Phil Blundell <philb at gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 12:02 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> I would have a feature called 'nobx' because most of the machines
>> we support actively in OE has BX. With current state this needs to
>> be added to MACHINE features for almost all arm machines. We can instead
>> have nobx and keep USE_BX enabled and only disable it if nobx appears
>> in machine_features. Otherwise I have tested the patches myself
>> and they seems to work well.
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> I'm not sure that putting bx (or nobx) in MACHINE_FEATURES really
> conveys any information that you can't already get from TARGET_ARCH plus
> THUMB_INTERWORK.  It's also worth noting that the latter is a DISTRO
> variable so, if you did add a competing bx flag to MACHINE_FEATURES, it
> would be difficult to ensure that the two were consistent.

If I am not wrong you can still do interworking and not have bx (using
mov pc,lr)

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