On Nov 9, 2007 12:36 AM, Lucas Korytkowski <lucas@rosstech.ca> wrote:
> Looks like they're using their own headers.  You're right, newlib will need
> a bit of work...
>
> I found this link which give an outline of porting newlib, the 7-step
> method:
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/newlib/2004/msg00230.html
>
> As far as porting newlib, I did a few ColdFire BSP ports only.
> Never had to do a ground-up port, thanks to David J. Fiddes who did the main
> work for porting gcc to the ColdFire.
>
> This has certainly piqued my curiosity in getting gcc working... (with
> library support, of course).
>

I think now it is confirmed that the distributed binaries has no code
size limitation.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=292995

Quote from the reply from Microchip's reply:
***************************************************************************************
The compiler, binutils (linker, assembler, etc.) have no restrictions
on their use beyond
those imposed by the GNU General Public License (v2). Many of the libraries,
however, are offered under different license terms. It is to these
libraries that the
code size restrictions apply. To say it another way, if you build and
use a different set
of libraries (e.g., newlib), no code size restrictions will apply, as
those restrictions apply
only to the non-GPL components of the aggregation.
***************************************************************************************

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