[PATCH] FreeBSD: Set the ARM EABI version when using an external assembler

[Andrew Turner]

On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 11:55:20 +0000
Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote:
> You're changing both EABI and GNUEABI but only testing one of them.
I can add a test for EABI but only GNUEABI will be supported on FreeBSD.
> 
> I can't see any problem arising from this change, but I'm still
> curious as to why this is needed. I may be wrong, but I think that
> "version 0" is assumed to be the current version. So, the only real
> need to set an ABI version would be if there was a new one that would
> break this one (which is very unlikely).
Without this patch gcc fails to link with objects and libraries
generated by clang.

> Being that the case, I think we shouldn't force ABI version 5 on all
> EABI binaries produced from clang. And since you can do that via
> command line, there's no rush in getting it in either.

How? When using an external assembler the the ABI version is sever
passed to it so will be 0.

Andrew