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-The biggest problem when trying to compile U-Boot with clang is that
-almost all archs rely on storing gd in a global register and clang user
-manual states: "clang does not support global register variables; this
-is unlikely to be implemented soon because it requires additional LLVM
-backend support."
-
-Since version 3.4 the ARM backend can be instructed to leave r9 alone.
-Global registers themselves are not supported so some inline assembly is
-used to get its value. This does lead to larger code then strictly
-necessary, but at least works.
-
-NOTE: target compilation only work for _some_ ARM boards at the moment.
-Also AArch64 is not supported currently due to a lack of private libgcc
-support. Boards which reassign gd in c will also fail to compile, but there is
-in no strict reason to do so in the ARM world, since crt0.S takes care of this.
-These assignments can be avoided by changing the init calls but this is not in
-mainline yet.
-
-Debian (based)
---------------
-Binary packages can be installed as usual, e.g.:
-sudo apt-get install clang
-
-Note that we still use binutils for some tools so we must continue to set
-CROSS_COMPILE. To compile U-Boot with clang on linux without IAS use e.g.:
-make HOSTCC=clang rpi_2_defconfig
-make HOSTCC=clang CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi- \
- CC="clang -target arm-linux-gnueabi" -j8
-
-It can also be used to compile sandbox:
-make HOSTCC=clang sandbox_defconfig
-make HOSTCC=clang CC=clang -j8
-
-FreeBSD 11 (Current):
---------------------
-Since llvm 3.4 is currently in the base system, the integrated as is
-incapable of building U-Boot. Therefore gas from devel/arm-gnueabi-binutils
-is used instead. It needs a symlinks to be picked up correctly though:
-
-ln -s /usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-as /usr/bin/arm-freebsd-eabi-as
-
-# The following commands compile U-Boot using the clang xdev toolchain.
-# NOTE: CROSS_COMPILE and target differ on purpose!
-export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-gnueabi-freebsd-
-gmake rpi_2_defconfig
-gmake CC="clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd" -j8
-
-Given that U-Boot will default to gcc, above commands can be
-simplified with a simple wrapper script, listed below.
-
-/usr/local/bin/arm-gnueabi-freebsd-gcc
----
-#!/bin/sh
-
-exec clang -target arm-freebsd-eabi --sysroot /usr/arm-freebsd "$@"