== Progress ==
o Extended validation (5/10)
* Dejagnu remote layout patch finalized and committed upstream
(will be part of the coming 1.6 Dejagnu release)
* GCC guality test fix committed in trunk.
* Native armv8l validation unblocked, but still slow (more than 8hrs)
Analysis on-going.
* Start to work on enhancement:
include cross validation and benchmark trigger.
o Misc (5/10)
* Lot of meetings (Internal, training, Benchmarking, ...)
== Plan ==
o Monthly snaphsot (review backports, branch merge)
o Continue on extended validation
o GCC ARMv8.1 builtins fix.
== Progress ==
Transition week into Linaro toolchain group from ARM to replace Bernie [*]
- Some ARM handover work done.
- Started looking into https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=24350 (TCWG-466
ADRL support)
-- Checked behaviour of ADRL on armasm and GNU as
-- Worked out what I need to do in LLVM to make ADRL work, looks like
nothing hugely complicated but a lot of plumbing through various layers.
- Started reading about AArch64 TLS descriptor implementation. I'm familiar
with the AArch32 traditional model so I need to bridge the gap a bit.
== Plans ==
- Post some review comments on Adhemeval's TLS patch with the hope of
unblocking it.
- Start implementing support for ADRL in the integrated assembler
== Planned Absences ==
Holiday 18th - 22nd April (Attending ACCU conference in Bristol). I think
I've put that in the shared holiday calendar correctly.
[*] Hello to everyone I didn't manage to meet at Linaro Connect. I've been
working in ARM's proprietary compiler team, with much of that time spent on
armlink and the other non-compiler tools.
# Progress #
* TCWG-167, ARM reverse debugging bug fixes. [4/10]
Four patches are committed. All FAILs are fixed if test case is
compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer. Some FAILs when
-fno-omit-frame-pointer are caused by epilogue unwinder doesn't parse
epilogue correctly if FP is involved. File TCWG-562 to track it.
* TCWG-545, TCWG-547, patches are pending. Maintainer is busy on
something else.
* Triage the regression gdb.base/jit.exp. [1/10]
We need a pending patch series to address this issue. Ask Pedro how
to review them.
* TCWG-561, handle unavailable memory during frame unwinding. [3/10]
Think about it and write a prototype.
* Misc, patches review and meeting, [2/10].
# Plan #
* Take a look at the slow native arm-linux-gnueabihf gdb test.
* TCWG-562, Tweak epilogue unwinder to handle FP.
* TCWG-545, TCWG-547, ping.
* TCWG-561, finish the prototype.
--
Yao
My dear friends,
I'm trying to build C++ code for Linux running on am ARM Cortex A8 (TI
AM335x). For a first try, I'm using the simplest program I can think of:
/* main.cpp */
int main() {
return 0;
}
Under Linux with the 'normal' GCC, that works fine, but under Windows 7
with the Linaro toolchain, it fails with the following message:
C:\firedect\dev\workspace\Test-Linux-ARM_1> "\Program Files (x86)\GNU
Tools ARM Embedded\gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-i686-ming
w32_arm-linux-gnueabi\bin\arm-linux-gnueabi-g++.exe" main.cpp
c:/program files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.9.4/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld.exe:c:/program
files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.9.4/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++.so:
file format not recognized; treating as linker script
c:/program files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.9.4/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/ld.exe:c:/program
files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-4.9-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabi/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.9.4/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabi/lib/libstdc++.so:1:
syntax error
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
C:\firedect\dev\workspace\Test-Linux-ARM_1> "\Program Files (x86)\GNU
Tools ARM Embedded\gcc-linaro-5.3-2016.02-i686-ming
w32_arm-linux-gnueabihf\bin\arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++.exe" main.cpp
c:/program files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-5.3-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/5.3.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe:c:/program
files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-5.3-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/5.3.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libstdc++.so:
file format not recognized; treating as linker script
c:/program files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-5.3-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/5.3.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe:c:/program
files (x86)/gnu tools arm
embedded/gcc-linaro-5.3-2016.02-i686-mingw32_arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/5.3.1/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libstdc++.so:1:
syntax error
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
As you can see, I have tested two versions of the toolchain, which show
the same behavior.
Do you have any idea what's going wrong here? I'd appreciate any help
you can provide!
--
Kind regards,
Gunnar Arndt
Hi list,
I hit another weird problem after use gcc 5.3 (If I use gcc 4.9, there is no any
issue) with android.
With arm gcc 5.3, the C++ apps crash in one class constructor call. And gdb
shows some vtbl items of the class are not relocated.
With arm gcc 4.9, if set breakpoint in that constructor, we could see the vtbl
items of the class are relocated.
And Yes. I know the android bionic loader take response to do relocation. But if
it works with gcc 4.9, I suppose bionic loader work well (unless gcc 5.3 create
some new situation not handled by it).
I attached the vtbl dump in gdb for gcc 5.3 and 4.9 both. We could see all valid
entries in vtbl are relocated in 4.9 dump. But not all entries in vtbl are
relocated in 5.3 dump (the address is not started with 0xf).
Suggestions/hints are welcome. Thanks a lot.
Regards
Yin, Fengwei
On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:12 AM, fengwei.yin <fengwei.yin(a)linaro.org> wrote:
> Because gcc 4.9 could build this file without any issue, I apply
> --save-temps
> with gcc 4.9. The ii file is attached. Can't see significant differences.
There is a patch in gcc-5 to make unified assembler syntax the
default. Unfortunately, it changes how extended asms work, which is
perhaps a bug. The message claims it doesn't affect extended asms,
but it does.
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2015-11/msg01196.html
The interesting bit is the change to ASM_APP_OFF.
gcc-4.9 emits a .thumb after the extended asm to switch back into
thumb mode just in case. gcc-5.3 instead emits .syntax unified, which
doesn't change the arm/thumb mode, just the syntax supported. This is
arguably a bug, but this doesn't immediately help you. It could take
a little time to get gcc-5.x source fixed, and then the compiler
binary releases. Or alternatively we could fix the asm to work with
gcc 5.
Jim
== Progress ==
o Extended validation (7/10)
* Fixed and improved extended native validation
* Discussed proposed patch in dejagnu on process killing mechanism
* Testing a fix/workaround in GCC guality tests
* Re-implemented and tested fix for dejagnu remote layout
o Misc (3/10)
* Various meetings
== Plan ==
o Continue on extended validation
o Finalize DejaGNU patches, GCC ARMv8.1 builtins fix.