Working gcc for IA64 with unwind support
Does anybody have a working toolchain for IA64 that supports the latest unwind descriptors? Preferably one that actually cross compiles from ix86.
The CVS gcc has broken cross compile ix86->IA64, incorrect optimization (bug C/645), spurious warning messages, no crt1 etc. After working around the gcc problems, the resulting kernel will not boot, it breaks during efi time initialization.
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"Keith" = Keith Owens <[email protected]> writes:
Keith> Does anybody have a working toolchain for IA64 that supports Keith> the latest unwind descriptors? Preferably one that actually Keith> cross compiles from ix86.
Keith> The CVS gcc has broken cross compile ix86->IA64, incorrect Keith> optimization (bug C/645), spurious warning messages, no crt1 Keith> etc. After working around the gcc problems, the resulting Keith> kernel will not boot, it breaks during efi time initialization.
Have you tried Jim's Oct-24 release from ftp.cygnus.com /pub/ia64-linux/?
Jes
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The CVS gcc has broken cross compile
ix86->IA64,
All cross compilers from 32-bit hosts to 64-bit targets have been broken since about March. I've posted about it a few times, but as yet no one has volunteered to fix the problem. Cygnus, err Red Hat, has some hacks that make it work, but no one has tried to turn this into a real patch yet. This means it does work in the Cygnus/Red Hat releases. I've been busy fixing IA-64 specific problems, so I haven't had much time to work on generic gcc problems like this.
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incorrect optimization (bug C/645)
I didn't know there was an IA-64 specific gcc bug report in the FSF GNATS database. I took a look.
It is an assembler bug. I believe this was fixed a month or two ago in the assembler. If you are using current CVS gcc, you must use current CVS binutils, and you also need to use glibc 2.2 or apply patches to revert ABI changes.
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spurious warning messages
What kind of messages? Eventually these should all go away, but the compiler isn't finished yet, so there are some that we have to live with for now. I'm fixing them as fast as I can. If anyone wants to volunteer to help, it would be appreciated. There is probably a lot more toolchain work that needs to be done than there is kernel work to do.
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no crt1 etc.
The crt1 file comes from glibc, not from gcc.
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After working
around the gcc problems, the resulting kernel will not boot, it breaks during efi time initialization.
FSF Gcc development is rather chaotic, so it isn't unusal to find that any particular snapshot is broken. These are mostly not IA-64 bugs, so it is a waste of time to try to fix them all immediately.
I'd suggest using the stable gcc branch that I maintain for the ia64-linux group instead of the top of the FSF gcc tree. This can be found at ftp.cygnus.com in pub/ia64-linux. This is intended for glibc 2.2, but I have a patch that makes it work reasonably well on glibc-2.1.3 systems.
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Does anybody have a working toolchain for IA64 that supports the latest unwind descriptors? Preferably one that actually cross compiles from ix86.
The current stable toolchain satisfies these criteria.
Jim