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Message-ID: <CAK4o1WxSn_2meoXGXM+-WA4q4BCFrufAq2NC7KTjhS6rFJCieQ@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 14:56:49 +0100 From: Justin Cormack <justin@...cialbusservice.com> To: musl@...ts.openwall.com Subject: Re: thumb2 support On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 12:54:40PM +0100, Justin Cormack wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 06:09:14PM +0200, Wermut wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> >> >> I have tested the patch from Stephen Thomas at least for gcc 4.6, 4.7 >> >> and 4.8. Seems to work. Would be nice if the 1.1.1 release will >> >> include a fix. >> > >> > It only works for armv7. On armv6k, I'm getting errors that the >> > instructions aren't supported. I think we could simply add !thumb as a >> > condition for the whole block... >> >> The patch has the wrong conditional in, there are no standard >> __thumb__ and __thumb2__ defines, it is __ARM_ARCH_ISA_THUMB being 1 >> or 2 that differentiates. armv6k does not support thumb2. I should >> have enough machines of different flavours to make a working patch. > > I don't see __ARM_ARCH_ISA_THUMB getting defined at all (gcc 4.7.1) so > it doesn't seem reliable. __THUMBEL__ is defined in thumb mode > (presumably the EL is for little endian?) but that's the only thing > I'm getting that seems relevant other than __thumb__. I was wrong, sorry, __thumb__ and __thumb2__ are defined. Maybe __ARM_ARCH_ISA_THUMB does seem to be not defined always. >> We should be able to support just using thumb2, for thumb 1 I guess we >> can support a mixed mode with some files like this compiled for arm >> only, but the rest compiled with thumb, with interop turned on. Not >> sure how messy this will turn out to be. > > armv6 does not seem to have thumb2, does it? And for armv7 I think it > should be reasonable to assume any thumb support is thumb2. Is this > wrong? Aside from the question of the macro name, I think the current > patch covers all cases that can be covered. (BTW as far as I can tell > there's no good reason to ever compile with -mthumb for pre-v7, but it > doesn't hurt to support it. All the asm is arm mode anyway, so -mthumb > doesn't get you the ability to run on obscure hardware that's > thumb-only unless you rewrite all the asm too.) Some armv6 machines have thumb2, but not many (ARMv6T2 apparently, I don't have one I don't think). All v7 machines do have (only) thumb2. So you could test ARM_ARCH_6T2 or __thumb2__. Alternatively it seems you can compile with -Wa,-mimplicit-it=always and you don't need the patch at all. That could make it easier in future. So far all the thumb2-only hardware has no MMU, so less likely to be using musl... Justin
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