Re: [Arm] Stack pointer setup thumb

Alexander Fedotov <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <CAN8C2CrTWQK=zJiNS6duFveseNvu2g6mAeZ6tv0CJTsxkHKWKQ@mail.gmail.com>
I have found relevant discussion on this
https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2008/msg00222.html (and here as well
http://sourceware-org.1504.n7.nabble.com/arm-elf-thumb-2-issue-in-newlib-or-gas-td181799.html)
Almost 11 years have passed =)

Alex

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 9:14 PM Alexander Fedotov <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 18:45, Nick Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hi Alex,
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>> > I hope you are have some memories on this fix :)
>> > https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=026f9d290f5fe85fe9bd3a56be378fc794e28473
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>> Not really :-(
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>> > Is this still relevant ?
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>> The whole patch, or just part of it ?
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> That part below (with sp initialization)
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>> > The problem is that users complaining that it has different behavior
>> > in ARM and Thumb modes for one Cortex-R core. And they do expected
>> > that library will make some minimal initialization in both ISA
>> > versions.
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>> Well to be honest I really do not remember what prompted this patch in
>> the first place.  So if you have a fix which makes the users happy and
>> which does not break anything then I would say "go for it". :-)
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>> > Should we just remove this ?
>> > +#ifdef __thumb2__
>> > +       /* XXX Fill in stack assignments for interrupt modes.  */
>> > +#else
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>> Sure - I would have no problems with that.  The comment was more
>> of a suggestion that someone needs to make sure that the stack
>> pointer is set up before interrupts happen, but it does not have
>> to be in this particular piece of code.  Plus presumably this has
>> already been done, or else many more people would be complaining
>> about interrupts not working in Thumb mode.
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> Yep. Basic idea is to have sp initialization for exceptions as well. Actually I already proposed a patch for this piece of code where I moved initialuzation in weak subroutine. But I saved this ifdef there as well. I will update patch then :)
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>> Cheers
>>   Nick
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> Thsnk you Nick !
> --
> Best regards,
> AF



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Best regards,
AF
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