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Message-ID: <20150721202515.GB5641@port70.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:25:16 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: fenv.s ARMv7 with clang
* Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net> [2015-07-21 15:08:25 +0200]:
> * Kjell Braden <kjell.braden@...ed.de> [2015-07-21 10:23:56 +0200]:
> > I've attached a patch that allows to compile fenv.s when using clang
> > targeting ARMv7. I haven't tried this with older architectures or other
> > compilers, but clang refuses to compile MRC/MCR with cp10. Instead, it
> > requires using VMSR/VMRS with FPSCR.
> >
>
> there is a problem which i also have to fix in math/armhf/*.s
>
> some armhf toolchains don't pass down -mfpu=vfp to the assembler,
> they just add ".fpu vfp" directive to the asm when compiling c code,
> so when you compile an asm file directly without the .fpu directive
> the vfp instructions are rejected by gas.
>
> the solution is either pass -mfpu=vfp* in the CFLAGS (but it needs
> some amount of configure trickery) or add the .fpu directive to
> these asm files.
>
> asm for reading FPSCR (all have the same encoding):
>
> .word 0xeef10a10 // always ok but not treated as an insn
> mcr p10,7,r0,cp1,cp0,0 // should be always ok, deprecated?
> fmrx r0,fpscr // old mnemonics, needs vfp
> vmrs r0,fpscr // new mnemonics, needs vfp and binutils >=2.21
>
> i think we should change all armhf asm to use the old mnemonics
> (i think "unified assembler language" was introduced in armv7 and
> vfpv3, but new binutils accepts both old and new mnemonics independently
> of arm version) and add ".fpu vfp" if vfp instructions are used.
>
> i will do these changes if there are no objections.
attached a patch.
View attachment "0001-fix-armhf-asm-to-use-.fpu-vfp-and-robust-mnemonics.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (3792 bytes)
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