Re: [PATCH] arm: Fix memchr() for Armv8-R

Sebastian Huber <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/12/2020 08:42, Sebastian Huber wrote:

> The Cortex-R52 processor is an Armv8-R processor with a NEON unit.  This
> fix prevents conflicting architecture profiles A/R errors issued by the
> linker.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Huber <[email protected]>
> ---
>   newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S | 4 ++++
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S b/newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S
> index 7c22b117e..1a4c6512c 100644
> --- a/newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S
> +++ b/newlib/libc/machine/arm/memchr.S
> @@ -79,7 +79,11 @@
>   
>   @ NOTE: This ifdef MUST match the one in memchr-stub.c
>   #if defined (__ARM_NEON__) || defined (__ARM_NEON)
> +#if __ARM_ARCH >= 8 && __ARM_ARCH_PROFILE == 'R'
> +	.arch	armv8-r
> +#else
>   	.arch	armv7-a
> +#endif
>   	.fpu	neon
>   
>   

The memchr.S from the ARM optimized routines package has little in 
common with the file in Newlib:

https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines/blob/master/string/arm/memchr.S

The Newlib variant uses VFP instructions for example.

I think this change should be checked in as is.

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