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On 2017-08-18 23:27, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:> On Fri, 18 Aug 2017, Aurelien Jarno wrote:> > > > > I am using GCC 6, so if the fix went in GCC 7, that's normal the issue> > > > is present.> > > > > > OK then; you can use the workaround I suggested to verify MIPS16 > > > compilation then.> > > > The workaround didn't work.> > Hmm, that means there's something wrong with binutils which needs fixing. > Can you please send me the failing .s file and the command line used to > assemble it (from `gcc -v')?Please find that attached.> > > > That's an interesting idea. If we use a different stub depending on the> > > > number of arguments, we can actually pass the syscall number last, which> > > > is probably more readable. Could also be used for mips16 in all cases?> > > > > > MIPS16 wrappers do that already, which is also why there is an individual > > > one for each syscall argument count.> > > > Please find below a new patch implementing that. It started to be> > complicated to get the MIPS16 related defines used to build the > > equivalent code through GCC to work, so I decided to also implement> > __libc_do_syscall0 to __libc_do_syscall4 in libc-do-syscall.S. I looked> > at the original code generated by GCC, it's very similar to what I used,> > sometimes just a bit longer (sometimes GCC saves the syscall number to> > the stack to reload it just after).> > The MIPS16 wrappers were split into individual files so that only ones > that are actually used by `ld.so' are pulled. I think it would be good if > we preserved that. I'll see if I can experiment with keeping the original > MIPS16 0-3 wrappers.For what I have seen, ld.so already uses syscalls with 1 to 4 arguments.It doesn't use any syscall without argument though. So it's only 4instructions overhead.Aurelien-- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9Baurelien@aurel32.nethttp://www.aurel32.net
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