[PATCH v1 04/11] tools/nolibc: arm: shrink _start with _start_c

[Zhangjin Wu]

Let's move most of the _start operations to _start_c().

Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon at tinylab.org>
---
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h | 42 ++++-----------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h
index a2ea5756cef2..573f8fe31cee 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h
@@ -183,49 +183,17 @@
 	_arg1;									\
 })
 
-
-char **environ __attribute__((weak));
-const unsigned long *_auxv __attribute__((weak));
-
 /* startup code */
 void __attribute__((weak,noreturn,optimize("omit-frame-pointer"))) __no_stack_protector _start(void)
 {
 	__asm__ volatile (
 #ifdef _NOLIBC_STACKPROTECTOR
-		"bl __stack_chk_init\n"       /* initialize stack protector                          */
+		"bl __stack_chk_init\n"	/* initialize stack protector			*/
 #endif
-		"pop {%r0}\n"                 /* argc was in the stack                               */
-		"mov %r1, %sp\n"              /* argv = sp                                           */
-
-		"add %r2, %r0, $1\n"          /* envp = (argc + 1) ...                               */
-		"lsl %r2, %r2, $2\n"          /*        * 4        ...                               */
-		"add %r2, %r2, %r1\n"         /*        + argv                                       */
-		"ldr %r3, 1f\n"               /* r3 = &environ (see below)                           */
-		"str %r2, [r3]\n"             /* store envp into environ                             */
-
-		"mov r4, r2\n"                /* search for auxv (follows NULL after last env)       */
-		"0:\n"
-		"mov r5, r4\n"                /* r5 = r4                                             */
-		"add r4, r4, #4\n"            /* r4 += 4                                             */
-		"ldr r5,[r5]\n"               /* r5 = *r5 = *(r4-4)                                  */
-		"cmp r5, #0\n"                /* and stop at NULL after last env                     */
-		"bne 0b\n"
-		"ldr %r3, 2f\n"               /* r3 = &_auxv (low bits)                              */
-		"str r4, [r3]\n"              /* store r4 into _auxv                                 */
-
-		"mov %r3, $8\n"               /* AAPCS : sp must be 8-byte aligned in the            */
-		"neg %r3, %r3\n"              /*         callee, and bl doesn't push (lr=pc)         */
-		"and %r3, %r3, %r1\n"         /* so we do sp = r1(=sp) & r3(=-8);                    */
-		"mov %sp, %r3\n"
-
-		"bl main\n"                   /* main() returns the status code, we'll exit with it. */
-		"movs r7, $1\n"               /* NR_exit == 1                                        */
-		"svc $0x00\n"
-		".align 2\n"                  /* below are the pointers to a few variables           */
-		"1:\n"
-		".word environ\n"
-		"2:\n"
-		".word _auxv\n"
+		"mov %r0, sp\n"		/* save stack pointer to r0, as arg1 of _start_c*/
+		"and ip, %r0, #-8\n"	/* sp must be 8-byte aligned in the callee	*/
+		"mov sp, ip\n"
+		"bl  _start_c\n"	/* transfer to c runtime			*/
 	);
 	__builtin_unreachable();
 }
-- 
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