[PATCH 4/4] ARM: add jump label support
Russell King - ARM Linux
linux at arm.linux.org.uk
Wed Nov 23 12:53:21 EST 2011
On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 08:25:09PM +0530, Rabin Vincent wrote:
> Here's a patch. Atleast on MIPS %c means something else so I had to
> ifdef it for ARM:
>
> 8<----------------------------
> >From ea211ce77e0ea9c5b8cd32b99bfb24e0140f0068 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:05:09 +0530
> Subject: [PATCH] jump label: detect %c support for ARM
>
> Some versions of ARM GCC don't support the %c specifier fully, but do
> support asm goto. Since we need the %c to support jump labels on ARM,
> detect that too in the asm goto detection script to avoid build errors
> with these versions.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48637
>
> Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent <rabin at rab.in>
> ---
> scripts/gcc-goto.sh | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
> index 98cffcb..9b744de 100644
> --- a/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
> +++ b/scripts/gcc-goto.sh
> @@ -2,4 +2,20 @@
> # Test for gcc 'asm goto' support
> # Copyright (C) 2010, Jason Baron <jbaron at redhat.com>
>
> -echo "int main(void) { entry: asm goto (\"\"::::entry); return 0; }" | $@ -x c - -c -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "y"
> +cat << "END" | $@ -x c - -c -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "y"
> +int main(void)
> +{
> +#ifdef __arm__
> + /*
> + * Not related to asm goto, but used by jump label
> + * and broken on some ARM GCC versions (see GCC Bug 48637).
> + */
> + static struct { int dummy; int state; } tp;
> + asm ("@ %c0" :: "i" (&tp.state));
> +#endif
> +
> +entry:
> + asm goto ("" :::: entry);
> + return 0;
> +}
> +END
Is the presence of asm goto and %c something we want to test together or
separately? I suspect it's something we want to do separately.
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