arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi ABI selection

[Michael Abbott]

On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Michael Abbott wrote:
> 1. Sorry, my analysis was wrong, but *something's* broken with the EABI
> configuration setup!
> 2. I can't build a good toolchain (sizeof(enum)==1 is a disaster).

I may have spotted a discrepancy, with CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAGS where it looks 
as if CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAG was meant.  I'm doing a rebuild test, but I think 
there's enough evidence for an update.


If I compare the log files with two different CT_ARCH_ABI selections I 
get:

@@ -282,7 +282,8 @@
 [EXTRA]      build  = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 [EXTRA]      host   = i686-pc-linux-gnu
 [EXTRA]      target = arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi
-[DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ABI=
+[DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ABI=aapcs
+[DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAG=-mabi=aapcs
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAGS=-mabi=aapcs-linux
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ARCH=armv5te
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_ARCH_CFLAG=-march=armv5te

Interesting and suspicious.  Both _CFLAG and _CFLAGS defined when aapcs 
selected?  Hmm.  And further down:

@@ -304,7 +305,7 @@
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_SUPPORT_FPU=y
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_SUPPORTS_BOTH_ENDIAN=y
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_SUPPORT_TUNE=y
-[DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_TARGET_CFLAGS='-mlittle-endian -march=armv5te  -mcpu=xscale -mtune=xscale  -msoft-float'
+[DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_TARGET_CFLAGS='-mlittle-endian -march=armv5te -mabi=aapcs -mcpu=xscale -mtune=xscale  -msoft-float'
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_TARGET_LDFLAGS=-EL
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_TUNE_CFLAG=-mtune=xscale
 [DEBUG]    CT_ARCH_TUNE=xscale

Very interesting.  Where did the -mabi option go?  (It doesn't appear 
anywhere else in the _ABI="" file.)  So I've fingered these lines in 
arch/arm/functions:

--- crosstool-ng-1.2.2.original/arch/arm/functions
+++ crosstool-ng-1.2.2.patched/arch/arm/functions
@@ -16,12 +16,12 @@
         *,) ;;
         aapcs,y)
             CT_DoLog DEBUG "'--with-abi=aapcs' is in fact 
'-mabi=aapcs-linux' when used in CFLAGS."
-            CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAGS="-mabi=aapcs-linux"
+            CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAG="-mabi=aapcs-linux"
             ;;
         ,y)
             CT_DoLog WARN "Forcing ABI to 'aapcs-linux' for use with 
EABI."
             CT_ARCH_WITH_ABI="--with-abi=aapcs"
-            CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAGS="-mabi=aapcs-linux"
+            CT_ARCH_ABI_CFLAG="-mabi=aapcs-linux"
             ;;
         *,y)
             CT_DoLog ERROR "ABI='${CT_ARCH_ABI}' not supported for EABI."

Now, in fact (assuming this works) this code is still wrong, because we 
shouldn't be specifying CT_ARCH_ABI at all here -- we don't have *any* 
choice about the matter once we've selected ARM EABI!

Certainly having made this change I'm getting the right -mabi-aapcs-linux 
flags passed to the various build stages, but the build is in progress.  
I'll make an update in an hour when the build is complete.


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