From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>
Cc: <libc-ports@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH roland/arm-memcpy] ARM: Make armv7 memcpy implementations SFI-friendly
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:20:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1306182218380.3542@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130618220149.CB94E2C0E4@topped-with-meat.com>
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Roland McGrath wrote:
> * sysdeps/arm/arm-features.h (ARM_BX_NINSNS): New macro.
> * sysdeps/arm/armv7/multiarch/memcpy_impl.S: Macroize the
> computed-jump dispatch sections. Use sfi_breg throughout.
> [ARM_ALWAYS_BX]: Define a different version of the dispatch macros
> that uses bx rather than add-to-pc, and respects ARM_BX_ALIGN_LOG2.
> [!USE_NEON] (D_l, D_h): Use r10, r11 rather than r8, r9.
> (tmp2): Use r8 rather than r10.
This is OK with the comments referring to an assembler bug amended to give
a binutils bug number (and preferably an indication of for what version it
was fixed) to make it easier in future to tell whether the workaround can
be removed because of a higher minimum binutils version requirement.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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2013-06-18 22:01 Roland McGrath
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