On 1 March 2016 at 10:51, James Greenhalgh <james.greenha...@arm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Feb 2016, James Greenhalgh wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 09:32:53AM +0100, Richard Biener wrote:
>> > >
>> > > The following fixes PR69951, hopefully the last case of decl alias
>> > > issues with alias analysis.  This time it's points-to and the DECL_UIDs
>> > > used in points-to sets not being canonicalized.
>> > >
>> > > The simplest (and cheapest) fix is to make aliases refer to the
>> > > ultimate alias target via their DECL_PT_UID which we conveniently
>> > > have available.
>> > >
>> > > Bootstrapped and tested on x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, applied to trunk.
>> > >
>> > > Richard.
>> > >
>> > > 2016-02-26  Richard Biener  <rguent...@suse.de>
>> > >
>> > >   PR tree-optimization/69551
>> > >   * tree-ssa-structalias.c (get_constraint_for_ssa_var): When
>> > >   looking through aliases adjust DECL_PT_UID to refer to the
>> > >   ultimate alias target.
>> > >
>> > >   * gcc.dg/torture/pr69951.c: New testcase.
>> >
>> > I see this new testcase failing on an ARM target as so:
>> >
>> >     /tmp/ccChjoFc.s: Assembler messages:
>> >     /tmp/ccChjoFc.s:21: Warning: [-mwarn-syms]: Assignment makes a symbol 
>> > match an ARM instruction: b
>> >
>> >     FAIL: gcc.dg/torture/pr69951.c   -O0  (test for excess errors)
>> >
>> > But I haven't managed to reproduce it outside of the test environment.
>> >
>> > The fix looks trivial, rename b to anything else you fancy (well... stay
>> > clear of add and ldr). I'll put a fix in myself if I can manage to get
>> > this to reproduce - though if anyone else wants to do it I won't be
>> > offended :-).
>>
>> Huh, I wonder what's the use of such warning.  After all 'ldr' is a valid
>> C symbol name, too.  In fact my cross arm as doesn't report this
>> warning (binutils 2.25.0)
>>
>> > arm-suse-linux-gnueabi-as t.s -mwarn-syms
>> Assembler messages:
>> Error: unrecognized option -mwarn-syms
>
> Right, I've figured out the set of conditions... You need to be targeting
> an arm-*-linux-* system to make sure that the ASM_OUTPUT_DEF definition
> from config/arm/linux-elf.h is pulled in. This causes us to emit:
>
> b = a
>
> Rather than
>
>         .set    b,a
>
> Writing it as "b = a" causes the warning added to resolve binutils
> PR18347 [1] to kick in, so you need binutils > 2.26 or to have backported
> that patch).
>
James,

What happens for you on arm-none-eabi configurations?
I'm using binutils-2.25, so I can't see this warning whatever the target.
However, I'm using qemu-arm and this test fails on arm-none-eabi,
because argc is set to 0 during the startup-code.

As I understand it, qemu-arm considers the code page as readonly,
and thus the GetCmdLine semi hosting call cannot write argc/argv
back to memory in the same code page (I'm using libgloss' crt0).

I tried to play with qemu-system-arm, but then libgloss' crt0 does not
set the reset vector and the simulation does random things, starting at
address 0.

Am I missing some newlib/libgloss configuration bits, or should I
send a newlib patch to address this?

Thanks

Christophe.


> Resolving it by hacking the testcase would be one fix, but I wonder why the
> ARM port prefers to emit "b = a" in a linux environment if .set does the
> same thing and always avoids the warning? Maybe Ramana/Richard/Kyrill/Nick
> remember? (AArch64 does the same thing, but the AArch64 gas port doesn't
> have the PR18347 fix).
>
> Cheers,
> James
>
> ---
>
> [1]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18347
>
>>
>> Richard.
>>

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