problem with bfin-linux-fdpic

Waldemar Brodkorb wbx@openadk.org
Mon Mar 17 10:47:06 GMT 2025


Hi Sam,
Sam James wrote,

> 
> 
> > On 17 Mar 2025, at 10:15, Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Sam,
> > Sam James wrote,
> 
> Hi!
> > 
> >> Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx@openadk.org> writes:
> >> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> I have an Arcturus Blackfin board I am using for experimenting with
> >>> uClibc-ng. It is a bf548 CPU.
> >>> Binutils 2.26 with this patch¹ works fine.
> >>> Binutils 2.27 does not work anymore.
> >>> 
> >>> A simple hello world gives me an "Illegal Instruction".
> >>> 
> >>> I tried to git bisect the problem, but I only get some unrelated
> >>> gdb commit as the culprit of the problem.
> >>> 
> >> 
> >> You can pass --disable-gdb when bisecting to not build the other stuff
> >> in the repository (see
> >> https://github.com/thesamesam/sam-gentoo-scripts/blob/main/gcc/bisect-binutils
> >> for a full list of options you can disable for bisecting just binutils).
> > 
> > Thanks, but I already use --disable-gdb.
> > See
> > https://cgit.openadk.org/cgi/cgit/openadk.git/tree/toolchain/binutils/Makefile#n56
> > 
> 
> Show me the error you got? May need to disable gdbserver too (possibly other bits as well).

I don't get a compile error. The toolchain generation works fine. The problem exist when I am running the
generated code. Do you want to see a stacktrace from the target?

best regards
 Waldemar


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