[PATCH] ARM: Fix strcmp() for Thumb-1

Sebastian Huber sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de
Sun May 26 11:30:00 GMT 2013


The GCC multilib for ARMv4T is broken with the current strcmp()
implementation.  GCC will pass no architecture flag to AS in case it
builds a multilib for -mthumb with no further architecture options.  The
default architecture is ARMv4T in GCC.  The usage of ".syntax unified"
instructs AS to produce output for the ARMv6T2 architecture.  Thus we
have (readelf -A):

File: ./arm-rtems4.11/thumb/newlib/libc/machine/arm/lib_a-strcmp.o
Attribute Section: aeabi
File Attributes
  Tag_CPU_arch: v6T2
  Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-2

The change suppresses ".syntax unified" for Thumb-1 and uses only
Thumb-1 instructions.  This leads to:

File: ./arm-rtems4.11/thumb/newlib/libc/machine/arm/lib_a-strcmp.o
Attribute Section: aeabi
File Attributes
  Tag_CPU_arch: v4T
  Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-1

newlib/ChangeLog
2013-05-26  Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de>

	libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S: Fix Thumb-1 version.
---
 newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S |    8 +++++---
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S b/newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S
index 0a4057e..c6cb991 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S
+++ b/newlib/libc/machine/arm/strcmp.S
@@ -50,7 +50,9 @@
 #define LSB 0x000000ff
 #endif /* not  __ARMEB__ */
 
+#if !(defined (__thumb__) && !defined (__thumb2__))
 .syntax         unified
+#endif
 
 #if defined (__thumb__)
         .thumb
@@ -64,14 +66,14 @@ strcmp:
 1:
         ldrb    r2, [r0]
         ldrb    r3, [r1]
-        adds    r0, r0, #1
-        adds    r1, r1, #1
+        add     r0, r0, #1
+        add     r1, r1, #1
         cmp     r2, #0
         beq     2f
         cmp     r2, r3
         beq     1b
 2:
-        subs    r0, r2, r3
+        sub     r0, r2, r3
         bx      lr
 #elif (defined (__OPTIMIZE_SIZE__) || defined (PREFER_SIZE_OVER_SPEED))
 1:
-- 
1.7.10.4



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