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authorHarry Liebel <Harry.Liebel@arm.com>2013-12-20 18:51:12 +0000
committerDan Handley <dan.handley@arm.com>2014-01-17 10:27:52 +0000
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Do not let GCC use built-in functions
In order to reduce the software dependency on the compiler, the project is now compiled with the '-ffreestanding' flag. This is to prevent GCC from replacing functions with more optimised versions. An example is where GCC replaces a simple printf() with a puts(). Change-Id: I1973fe6957cd708e8432a0039af9d50e037bd884
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@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ Detailed changes since last release
Implementations for `putchar()` and `strchr()` were added to the local C
library.
+* GCC compiler built-in function support has been disabled in order to improve
+ compiler independence.
+
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