[BUG REPORT] The bare-metal toolchains for aarch64 cannot link objects successfully - linaro-toolchain

3 Feb 2019


      Hi,
I found that the bare-metal toolchains for aarch64 from Linaro could not seem
to link objects to generate executable files successfully.
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Toolchain:
https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.3-2018.05/aarch6...
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Testcase:
...
cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
        printf("Hello World!\n");
        return 0;
}
...
aarch64-elf-gcc -o test test.c
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/crt0.o: In function `_start':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/libgloss/aarch64/crt0.S:148: undefined reference to `initialise_monitor_handles'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-exit.o): In function `exit':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/stdlib/exit.c:70: undefined reference to `_exit'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-sbrkr.o): In function `_sbrk_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/sbrkr.c:58: undefined reference to `_sbrk'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-writer.o): In function `_write_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/writer.c:58: undefined reference to `_write'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-closer.o): In function `_close_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/closer.c:53: undefined reference to `_close'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-lseekr.o): In function `_lseek_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/lseekr.c:58: undefined reference to `_lseek'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-readr.o): In function `_read_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/readr.c:58: undefined reference to `_read'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-fstatr.o): In function `_fstat_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/fstatr.c:62: undefined reference to `_fstat'
.../gcc-linaro-7.3.1-2018.05-x86_64_aarch64-elf/bin/../aarch64-elf/libc/usr/lib/libc.a(lib_a-isattyr.o): In function `_isatty_r':
/home/tcwg-buildslave/workspace/tcwg-make-release/builder_arch/amd64/label/tcwg-x86_64-build/target/aarch64-elf/snapshots/newlib.git~linaro-local~linaro-newlib-2_5_0/newlib/libc/reent/isattyr.c:58: undefined reference to `_isatty'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
In addition, there was the same bug in 7.4.1-2019.02 version, but not in arm-eabi
or armeb-eabi.
Is there anyone fixing this?
Thanks,
Junling