We now allow use of -mgpopt=global and -mgpopt=data. The 'global'
option is now the default instead of compiler-default local, expanding
global pointer usage to all small data in the system.
For systems where all RAM is less than 64K, the 'data' option may be
appropriate.
Some fixes had to be made to the system in order to get around some
issues:
* prep_c.c no longer uses fake linker variables to figure out the size
of data or BSS, as these gave the linker fits as it tried to compute
relative addresses to them.
* _k_task_ptr_idle is create by sysgen and placed in a special section.
Any small data in a special section needs to be declared extern
with __attribute__((section)) else the compiler will assume it's in
.sdata.
* same situation with extern references to k_pipe_t (fixed pipe_priv
test)
For legacy applications being ported to Nios II which do things that
freak out global pointer calculation, it can be disabled entirely.
Change-Id: I5eb86ee8aefb8e2fac49c5cdd104ee19cea23f6f
Signed-off-by: Andrew Boie <andrew.p.boie@intel.com>
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