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Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 19:20:25 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: ppc soft-float regression
* Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> [2015-05-17 12:35:21 -0400]:
> On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:03:21AM +0200, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as mentioned the days on IRC.
> > 1.1.9 produces a lot of segfaults on Qemu-PPC with Soft-Float.
> > 1.1.8 was fine.
>
> Soft-float has never been a supported configuration for PowerPC, as
> you can see from the fact that there's no separate dynamic linker name
> for it. I'm surprised it ever seemed to work -- surely setjmp/longjmp
> would be broken since they save/restore FPU registers. I don't think
> it would be hard to add though, and I'd welcome patches for it. What's
> needed is basically:
>
> - detection in configure, setting $SUBARCH there
> - dynamic linker name variants in arch/powerpc/reloc.h
> - separate subarch dir for soft-float in src/setjmp
>
> If you add soft-float it would probably make sense to add
> little-endian variant at the same time, if that's useful to anyone,
> since once you do the subarch work there's hardly any more work to
> make an endian variant too.
>
note that the current musl-cross powerpc patches don't do
the include reordering so the gcc includes will be the
first in the path. this is fixed in
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-04/msg01640.html
if there is a ppc soft-float abi musl may support then please
invent an abi name for it so i can update the gcc patch before
it gets committed.
(i think powerpc{el}{-sf} and powerpc64{el}{-sf} should work:
it is consistent with the naming for mips).
attached the musl dynamic linker name patch for "el" support,
similar would be needed for -sf (+setjmp.s etc updates).
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