[fpc-pascal] fpc on Armel issues

[Jonas Maebe]

On 25 Aug 2009, at 14:16, Nataraj S Narayan wrote:

> Fpc compiled binary:-
> root at at91sam9263ek:~$ readelf -h firework
> ELF Header:
>  Flags:                             0x5000002, has entry point,  
> Version5 EABI
>
> Other Binary:-
> root at at91sam9263ek:~$ readelf -h formshow
> ELF Header:
>  Flags:                             0x4000002, has entry point,  
> Version4 EABI
>
> Could it be that arm-linux is not ready for Version5 EABI?

You arm-linux system is indeed apparently EABI version 4, while you  
generated an EABI version 5 binary. The default version is determined  
by the assembler that you use. It's possible to pass an option to the  
assembler to generate EABI version 4 object files (-meabi=4), but FPC  
does not have provisions to let you pass options to the assembler.

What you can however do is replace your assembler with a shell script  
that contains basically

#!/bin/sh
/path/to/original/as -meabi=4 $@

Even better would be to upgrade your Linux system to one based on  
version 5 of the EABI, because version 4 was only a prerelease and  
only meant for testing use.


Jonas