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From: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.ibm.com>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
	Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Nemanja Ivanovic <nemanjai@ca.ibm.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Define USE_PPC64_NOTOC iff compiler and linker also supports it
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:20:21 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnl73la2.fsf@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zgq33n1k.fsf@linux.ibm.com>

Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> writes:

> Alan Modra via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org> writes:
>
>> I have a question about powerpc64/ppc-mcount.S.  Why is the assembly
>> wrapper using ENTRY and a NOTOC call?  By using ENTRY you are saying
>> that calls to _mcount must have r2 valid.  Given that r2 is valid, why
>> then use NOTOC?
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if that was a misinterpretation of the ABI on my part.
>
> Looking at table 2.20 "Protocols for Local Function Calls", I think this is a
> scenario that falls to the last row of this table, where we have:

OK, I should be looking at table 2.19 because this is not a call within the
same compilation unit.

I guess that answers my previous question and all these calls should have nop
after the branch.

-- 
Tulio Magno

  reply	other threads:[~2021-11-16 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-08 11:33 Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-08 22:48 ` Fangrui Song
2021-11-09 11:05   ` Alan Modra
2021-11-16 19:42     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2021-11-16 20:20       ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho [this message]
2021-11-16 20:48         ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-16 22:12           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-11-16 22:46           ` Bill Schmidt
2021-11-17  2:16       ` Alan Modra
2021-11-17  2:30         ` Alan Modra
2021-11-09 13:03   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-09 17:44     ` Fangrui Song
2021-11-09 18:44       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-19 15:52 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2021-11-22 17:54   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-11-25 17:02     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2021-11-25 17:16       ` Adhemerval Zanella

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