Newlib bug

[Yogesh Wani <yogeshwani at gmail dot com>]

I am very new to all these things so please bear with me and correct
me if I am making any mistakes.

I have already reported an error in the crossgcc@sourceware.org
mailing list. However i digged up a bit more on the git repository and
found out the offending changelist which is causing me issues in
building for gcc with newlib for arm7tdmi cpu is the following.

author           Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
                    Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:26:53 +0100 (09:26 +0000)

committer      Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
                     Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:26:53 +0100 (09:26 +0000
commit          a23da62b7adc4a87378b850f45b41c1795beeb1f

tree               467780b260ba0a837e827905a298d95dab8f5b67
parent            9e98e77b6fd19387dd8c3720b01710c0e51c1a1d


I am trying to upgrade my existing toolchain for arm7tdmi with the
following packages.

binutils: binutils-2.25
newlib:  newlib-2.2.0.20150323
gcc:      gcc-4.9.2
gmp:     gmp-6.0.0
mpc:     mpc-1.0.3
mpfr:     mpfr-3.1.2

NOTE: Earlier I had newlib version 1.20.0. and that was fine with a
local fix in the libgloss/arm/redboot-crt0.S file.This was later fixed
by the commit # 408b20f1cc9b9030d6a4f0896876824b80b838e7

and configuring GCC with

~/armtoolchain/src/gcc-4.9.2/configure --target=arm-none-eabi
--prefix=/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/binaries/ --enable-languages=c,c++
--with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-newlib
--with-gxx-include-dir=/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/binaries/arm-none-eabi/include
--with-cpu=arm7tdmi --with-gmp=/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/binaries
--with-mpfr=/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/binaries
--with-mpc=/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/binaries


The error that I get is as follows:
/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/src/gcc-4.9.2/newlib/libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memset-arm.S:
Assembler messages:
/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/src/gcc-4.9.2/newlib/libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memset-arm.S:43:
Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `uxtb lr,r2'
/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/src/gcc-4.9.2/newlib/libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memset-arm.S:58:
Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `uxtb lr,r2'
/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/src/gcc-4.9.2/newlib/libc/machine/arm/aeabi_memset-arm.S:93:
Error: selected processor does not support ARM mode `uxtbne r2,r2'
make[9]: *** [lib_a-aeabi_memset-soft.o] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/fpu/newlib/libc/machine/arm'
make[8]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/fpu/newlib/libc/machine'
make[7]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[7]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/fpu/newlib/libc'
make[6]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/fpu/newlib'
make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/fpu/newlib'
make[4]: *** [multi-do] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/newlib'
make[3]: *** [all-multi] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/newlib'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2/arm-none-eabi/newlib'
make[1]: *** [all-target-newlib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/yogesh/armtoolchain/builds/gcc-4.9.2'
make: *** [all] Error 2

The issue is that I am building the toolchain for an older
architecture and the uxtb/uxtbne instructions in the
aeabi_memset-arm.S file does not do any architecture checks to see if
the instruction is valid for architectures below armv6.

Is it possible that you can do a fix and commit the changes or suggest
me some alternative so that I can proceed with my toolchain build.
This is really urgent for me.

Thanks and Regards,
Yogesh


-- 
Yogesh Wani
Luck is a looser's excuse for winners position !