exceptions in RAM was Re: What is "no" application? nm?

[Till Straumann]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Till Straumann wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>  
>>> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:39 +0300, Leon Pollak wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>> On Monday, 31 בMarch 2008, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> I am not using kdevelop - Last time I tried, kdevelop could not 
>>>>> handle
>>>>> cross-compilation :/
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> It handles cross-compilation really good for some (long) time.
>>>> It is very fast and handy.
>>>> A bit clumsy debugger interface, but I recommend it.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>>> Still, I see rather many changes in the basic libcpu code, BSP 
>>>>>> and some
>>>>>> things do not work, although worked in 4.7.
>>>>>> Still struggling with them, and if somebody needs my experience...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>           
>>>>> My advise: Dump kdevelop.
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> Thanks...:) Will not follow it :))
>>>>
>>>>       
>>> Choose your poison.
>>>
>>> To me, kdevelop is a semi-functional "greasy kid toy" - Last time I
>>> checked, it had not been able to import foreign projects, produced junk
>>> auto*tool support files and did only support one target-at-time
>>> compilation.
>>>
>>>
>>>    
>>>> For example, there was no usage of Cpu_table.exceptions_in_RAM in 
>>>> none of
>>>> mpc8xxx BSPs.
>>>>
>>>>       
>> IIRC, psim is the only target using 'exceptions_in_RAM == FALSE'.
>> Note, however, that the name is misleading. It only refers to the
>> address where the
>> exception vectors are (in_RAM=TRUE -> zero, in_RAM=FALSE -> high 
>> address).
>> However, the (IMHO not so-) wonderful 'new-exceptions' model *always*
>> requires
>> the vector table to be writable (met by psim, of course) so the 
>> vector table
>> cannot be in ROM...
>>   
> Thanks. Isn't this the deficiency Thomas would like to see resolved?
I think so.

T
>> HTH
>> -- Tiill
>>  
>>> This has nothing to do with your current issue.
>>>
>>> The powerpc guys (Thomas, Till, Joel) are the persons to answer.
>>>
>>> Ralf
>>>
>>>
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