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Subject: Re: Linux Kernel Issue: MPC8540 Errata (CPU29)
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Chiradeep Vittal wrote:

>It turns out to be a compiler issue.
>We're using gcc 3.4.3 with optimization level -Os. The following program will generate the illegal instruction with -Os but not with -O2
>	int main (int argc, char** argv)
>	{	
>	  int seq[] = {0, 1, 2};
>	  return 0;
>	}
>The reason is that the compiler generates code with the stswi instruction which is not supported by the e500. Here's our compiler configuration:
>Configured with: /home/steve/perforce/sw/opt/crosstool/build/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.2/gcc-3.4.3/configure --target=powerpc-8540-linux-gnu --host=i686-host_pc-linux-gnu --prefix=/home/steve/perforce/sw/opt/cross-compile/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.2 --with-cpu=8540 --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=8540 --with-headers=/home/steve/perforce/sw/opt/cross-compile/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.2/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu/include --with-local-prefix=/home/steve/perforce/sw/opt/cross-compile/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu/gcc-3.4.3-glibc-2.3.2/powerpc-8540-linux-gnu --disable-nls --enable-threads=posix --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-shared --enable-c99 --enable-long-long
>
>Any recommendations?
>  
>
Here's the patch we use to get GCC to stop generating the invalid 
intructions.

Greg Weeks


--- gcc-orig/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.h    2003-12-08 20:57:45.000000000 
-0500
+++ gcc-new/gcc/config/rs6000/rs6000.h    2004-09-15 14:23:36.680978222 
-0400
@@ -550,10 +550,10 @@
 #define TARGET_LONG_DOUBLE_128 (rs6000_long_double_type_size == 128)
 #define TARGET_ALTIVEC_ABI rs6000_altivec_abi
 #define TARGET_ALTIVEC_VRSAVE rs6000_altivec_vrsave
+#define TARGET_E500 (rs6000_cpu == PROCESSOR_PPC8540)
 
 #define TARGET_SPE_ABI 0
 #define TARGET_SPE 0
-#define TARGET_E500 0
 #define TARGET_ISEL 0
 #define TARGET_FPRS 1