From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Albert ARIBAUD Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:43:49 +0100 Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] arm: make arch memset/memcpy to work with Thumb2 builds In-Reply-To: <546E3D79.60904@myspectrum.nl> References: <1416406618-16276-1-git-send-email-stefan@agner.ch> <546DB29C.7060500@myspectrum.nl> <546DE833.3090707@myspectrum.nl> <87bno1nbo0.fsf@nbsps.com> <546E0E7D.90203@myspectrum.nl> <87vbm9lomc.fsf@nbsps.com> <546E3D79.60904@myspectrum.nl> Message-ID: <20141121164349.14d3fc9f@lilith> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hello Jeroen, Adding Stefan as it seems he was dropped from the recipients list. Plus : On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 20:14:01 +0100, Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > Hi, > > On 20-11-14 19:21, Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > >>>> --- > >>>> arch/arm/lib/memset.S | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- > >>>> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) > >>>> > >>>> diff --git a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S > >>>> index 0cdf895..4fe38f6 100644 > >>>> --- a/arch/arm/lib/memset.S > >>>> +++ b/arch/arm/lib/memset.S > >>>>>> -18,8 +18,8 @@ > >>>> 1: subs r2, r2, #4 @ 1 do we have enough > >>>> blt 5f @ 1 bytes to align with? > >>>> cmp r3, #2 @ 1 > >>>> - strltb r1, [r0], #1 @ 1 > >>>> - strleb r1, [r0], #1 @ 1 > >>>> + strblt r1, [r0], #1 @ 1 > >>>> + strble r1, [r0], #1 @ 1 > >>> To test this, can we just use 'objdump'. The hex codes should be > >>> identical; there is only one encoding. It should produce the same > >>> binaries. No need to run test-suites, etc. > > On 20 Nov 2014, jeroen at myspectrum.nl wrote: > > > >> yes, I should be trivial to test (and find the trivial problem, with > >> the patch I attached). I am wondering though if all version of > >> gas accept the suffix notation... any idea? > > One part of the answer is here, > > > > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=history;f=gas/config/tc-arm.c;hb=HEAD > > > > The 'strCCb' version is definitely more popular in older ARM books. > > Certainly there could be bugs and/or patched versions that make a > > difference. Probably it would be helpful to know what versions are > > supported. > > > > Back in 1999 it seems that the code at least tries to take conditions > > anywhere, > > > > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gas/config/tc-arm.c;hb=858f4ff6ff40a73f2a569fc8886157568f08c6db#l6099 > > > > I think it is most likely to result in a parse error if it wasn't > > supported. Any version since Thumb2/Unified (2003-2005?) was introduced > > should be accepting this syntax with less issues. Ie, it seems like a > > better way forward. > > > > Historical versions are here, > > > > http://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/sourceware.org/pub/binutils/old-releases/ > > > > Who knows if some vendor patched things to mess something up? Probably > > grabbing an older 'gas' version and verifying it was the same binary > > before/after the patch would probably be fair confirmation? I don't > > think you can 100% guarantee this doesn't break with some archaic > > vendors gas. > > Ok thanks for digging that up, that doesn't sound like a problem > then. Stefan, can you check if you can actually fix the warnings > instead of suppressing them? (in the right thread this time) Stefan, can you also drop the -mauto-it part? > Regards, > Jeroen Amicalement, -- Albert.