Re: [RFC PATCH] ARM: Use generic BUG() handler

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:12:40AM +0100, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> Russell King - ARM Linux writes:
>  > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 08:49:49AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
>  > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:27:43PM -0800, Simon Glass wrote:
>  > > > +	asm volatile("1:\t.word %c3\n"				\
>  > > > +		     ".pushsection __bug_table,\"a\"\n"		\
>  > > > +		     "2:\t.word 1b, %c0\n"			\
>  > > > +		     "\t.hword %c1, 0\n"			\
>  > > > +		     "\t.org 2b+%c2\n"				\
>  > > 
>  > > %c doesn't work on lots of versions of gcc, which is why we can't use
>  > > the generic bug support.  There's no way to reliably generate constants
>  > > without many compiler versions spitting out a '#' before them.
>  > 
>  > gcc 4.3.2:
>  > 
>  > asm(".word %c0" : : "i" (0));
>  > 
>  > produces:
>  > 
>  >         .word #0
>  > 
>  > which gas chokes on:
>  > 
>  > /tmp/cc2hGOHd.s:12: Error: bad expression
>  > /tmp/cc2hGOHd.s:12: Error: junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `0'
>  > 
>  > So what this means is that it's impossible to generate constants in
>  > assembly with GCC targetting ARM without having them prefixed by '#',
>  > which in turn makes it impossible to use the generic BUG support.
>  > 
>  > I reported this bug to gcc folk many years ago.  I've no idea which
>  > version it has been fixed in or if it's even been fixed.
> 
> What's the gcc bugzilla bug number?

No idea off hand - I'll have to search for that.
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