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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] powerpc/math-emu: Update macros from GCC
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 17:29:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181203232901.GC3803@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181203230746.27196-1-joel@jms.id.au>

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 09:37:46AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> The add_ssaaaa, sub_ddmmss, umul_ppmm and udiv_qrnnd macros originate
> from GCC's longlong.h which in turn was copied from GMP's longlong.h a
> few decades ago.
> 
> This was found when compiling with clang:
> 
>    arch/powerpc/math-emu/fnmsub.c:46:2: error: invalid use of a cast in a
>    inline asm context requiring an l-value: remove the cast or build with
>    -fheinous-gnu-extensions
>            FP_ADD_D(R, T, B);
>            ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>    ...
> 
>    ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/sfp-machine.h:283:27: note: expanded from
>    macro 'sub_ddmmss'
>                   : "=r" ((USItype)(sh)),                                  \
>                           ~~~~~~~~~~^~~
> 
> Segher points out: this was fixed in GCC over 16 years ago
> ( https://gcc.gnu.org/r56600 ), and in GMP (where it comes from)
> presumably before that.
> 
> Update the add_ssaaaa, sub_ddmmss, umul_ppmm and udiv_qrnnd macros to
> the latest GCC version in order to git rid of the invalid casts. These
> were taken as-is from GCC's longlong in order to make future syncs
> obvious. Other parts of sfp-machine.h were left as-is as the file
> contains more features than present in longlong.h.
> 
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/260
> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>

This looks fine, thanks!

Reviewed-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>


Segher

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-12-03 23:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-03 23:07 [PATCH v3] powerpc/math-emu: Update macros from GCC Joel Stanley
2018-12-03 23:25 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-12-03 23:29 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-12-07 13:06 ` [v3] " Michael Ellerman

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