[ECOS] Cannot Build eCos Common HAL with PowerPC Altivec Instructions

["Mike Arthur" <arth2219 at gmail dot com>]

Are there any PowerPC developers using Altivec instructions with eCos ?

I have a couple of MPC74xx HALs that I'd like to build with gcc's
-maltivec flag to enable the Altivec instruction set.  Any version of
gcc above 3.4.4 (that I've tried), results in an error with the inline
functions in hal_if.h from the Common HAL:

powerpc-eabi-gcc -c  -I/tmp/untitled6_install/include
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/tests -I.
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/
-finline-limit=7000 -mcpu=604 -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -g -O2 -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections  -fno-exceptions -maltivec   -Wp,-MD,src/hal_if.tmp -o
src/hal_common_hal_if.o
/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/hal_if.c
powerpc-eabi-gcc -c  -I/tmp/untitled6_install/include
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/tests -I.
-I/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/
-finline-limit=7000 -mcpu=604 -Wall -Wpointer-arith
-Wstrict-prototypes -Winline -Wundef  -g -O2 -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections  -fno-exceptions -maltivec   -Wp,-MD,src/hal_misc.tmp
-o src/hal_common_hal_misc.o
/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/hal_misc.c
In file included from
/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/hal_misc.c:57:
/tmp/untitled6_install/include/cyg/hal/hal_if.h: In function
`__call_COMM_IF_DBG_ISR':
/tmp/untitled6_install/include/cyg/hal/hal_if.h:329: error:
incompatible type for argument 3 of indirect function call
In file included from
/opt/ecos/ecos-current/packages/hal/common/current/src/hal_if.c:65:
/tmp/untitled6_install/include/cyg/hal/hal_if.h: In function
`__call_COMM_IF_DBG_ISR':
/tmp/untitled6_install/include/cyg/hal/hal_if.h:329: error:
incompatible type for argument 3 of indirect function call
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/untitled6_build/hal/common/current'


The above example is building the AdderII (A&M Adder PPC852T board)
with the "-maltivec" and "-mcpu=7450" compile flags against eCos
current.  I know that the AdderII does not support the Altivec
instruction set, but that doesn't matter for my example.  I run into
the same problem with my MPC74XX HALs, when I compile with -maltivec.
I just wanted to create an example that anyone with a PowerPC gcc
compiler could duplicate.

I receive the above error with powerpc-eabi-gcc 3.4.4, 3.4.6, and
4.1.2.  I did not receive the error with powerpc-eabi-gcc 3.2.1.

I believe the error stems from the
__call_COMM3(_n_,_rt_,_t_,_t1_,_t2_,_t3_) macro.  I think gcc gets
confused with _p1_, _p2, _p3_:

static __inline__ _rt_                                          \
__call_COMM_##_n_(hal_virtual_comm_table_t t, _t1_ _p1_, _t2_ _p2_,
_t3_ _p3_)        \
{                                                               \
   _rt_ res;                                                   \
   void *dp = (__comm_if_ch_data_t)t[CYGNUM_COMM_IF_CH_DATA];  \
   _ENTER_MONITOR();                                           \
   res = ((_t_)(t[CYGNUM_COMM_##_n_]))(dp, _p1_, _p2_, _p3_);              \
   _EXIT_MONITOR();                                            \
   return res;                                                 \
}

Does anyone know of a fix for this problem?

Thanks,
Mike

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