Broken RISC-V code in newlib
Eric Salem
ericsalem@gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 13:54:38 GMT 2025
Hi Jeff,
On 3/25/25 8:40 AM, Jeff Law wrote:
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> You recently put a typedef into libc/machine/riscv/sys/asm.h as well as including stdint.h.
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> That breaks code such as strcmp.S which includes sys/asm.h, but is processed by the assembler after pre-processing:
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>> CPPAS libc/machine/riscv/libc_a-strcmp.o
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h: Assembler messages:
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:41: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef signed char __int8_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:43: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef unsigned char __uint8_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:55: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef short int __int16_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:57: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef short unsigned int __uint16_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:77: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef int __int32_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:79: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef unsigned int __uint32_t'
> [ ... ]
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>> CPPAS libc/machine/riscv/libc_a-setjmp.o
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h: Assembler messages:
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:41: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef signed char __int8_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:43: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef unsigned char __uint8_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:55: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef short int __int16_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:57: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef short unsigned int __uint16_t'
>> /home/jlaw/jenkins/workspace/riscv64-elf/newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/include/machine/_default_types.h:77: Error: unrecognized opcode `typedef int __int32_t'
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> Those two failures make it appear that this change has not been tested at all.
That's strange because I compiled everything during testing and didn't get any errors. I'll send an updated patch for it.
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> And it looks like you busted strcpy as well. This probably only fails with gcc-15 as gcc-15 defaults to c23 where implicit declarations are flagged as hard errors:
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>> CC libc/machine/riscv/libc_a-strcpy.o
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/strcpy.c: In function 'strcpy':
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/strcpy.c:17:10: error: implicit declaration of function '__libc_strcpy'; did you mean '__builtin_strcpy'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>> 17 | return __libc_strcpy(dst, src, true);
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> | __builtin_strcpy
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/strcpy.c:17:10: error: returning 'int' from a function with return type 'char *' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>> 17 | return __libc_strcpy(dst, src, true);
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> And stpcpy:
>> CC libc/machine/riscv/libc_a-stpcpy.o
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/stpcpy.c: In function 'stpcpy':
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/stpcpy.c:6:10: error: implicit declaration of function '__libc_strcpy'; did you mean '__builtin_strcpy'? [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>> 6 | return __libc_strcpy(dst, src, false);
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> | __builtin_strcpy
>> ../../../..//newlib-cygwin/newlib/libc/machine/riscv/stpcpy.c:6:10: error: returning 'int' from a function with return type 'char *' makes pointer from integer without a cast [-Wint-conversion]
>> 6 | return __libc_strcpy(dst, src, false);
>> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> make[1]: *** [Makefile:34809: libc/machine/riscv/libc_a-stpcpy.o] Error 1
Those files are including string.h but it maybe in this case it included the system header instead of the local one. I'll take a look.
Thanks for the heads up.
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> Jeff
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