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Date:      Thu, 9 Jun 2016 11:11:16 -0400
From:      Andrew Turner <andrew@fubar.geek.nz>
To:        Warner Losh <wlosh@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r301706 - head/sys/boot/efi
Message-ID:  <20160609111116.38055e82@zapp>
In-Reply-To: <ADA8EE73-8FC0-43A1-888A-4608C7057BE3@bsdimp.com>
References:  <201606082323.u58NNGsP065228@repo.freebsd.org> <ADA8EE73-8FC0-43A1-888A-4608C7057BE3@bsdimp.com>

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2016 22:30:15 -0400
Warner Losh <wlosh@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> > On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:23 PM, Andrew Turner <andrew@FreeBSD.org>
> > wrote:
> >=20
> > Author: andrew
> > Date: Wed Jun  8 23:23:16 2016
> > New Revision: 301706
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/301706
> >=20
> > Log:
> >  Also set -fshort-wchar on arm64, this fixes parsing strings from
> > UEFI, e.g. on the command line. =20
>=20
> Maybe this could be used to fix the %S issue instead of the kludge
> we=E2=80=99re now doing=E2=80=A6

It may still be needed for arm. The linker checks the compatibility of
the attributes so we would need to set -fshort-wchar on all the loader
components meaning it would need to be set on all arm loader
implementations.

Andrew



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