Self-ping. Mike, can you reply to Alan's mail please? He makes a lot of points, not all of them bad certainly!
Segher On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 08:42:04PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote: > PowerPC: PR libgcc/97543, fix 64-bit long double issues > > There are two issues in PR libgcc/97543 which shows up if you build a GCC > compiler with long double defaulting to 64-bit instead of 128-bit with IBM > extended double: > > 1) The first issue was the t-linux file forced the entire libgcc > library > to be compiled with the -mlong-double-128 option. > > 2) The second issue is that the GNU attribute #4 is set to reflect > using > 128-bit long doubles, and you get linker warnings when you use use the > compiler, since libgcc_s.so indicates 128-bit IBM long doubles were > used. I ran into a similar issue with my patches to extend libgcc to > work if long doubles were configured to use the 128-bit IEEE format > instead of the 128-bit IBM format. > > One feature of the current GNU attribute implementation is if you have a > shared > library (such as libgcc_s.so), the GNU attributes for the shared library is an > inclusive OR of all of the modules within the library. This means if any > module uses the -mlong-double-128 option and uses long double, the GNU > attributes for the library will indicate that it uses 128-bit IBM long > doubles. If you have a static library, you will get the warning only if you > actually reference a module with the attribute set. > > This patch does two things: > > 1) Instead of compiling the whole library with -mlong-double-128, > it only > compiles the modules that process the IBM extended double format with > this switch. It also specifies that these files must be compiled using > the IBM format for long double. > > 2) I turned off GNU attributes for the whole library. Originally, > I just > turned off GNU attributes for just the modules that process IBM > extended format values. But this doesn't work if the compiler defaults > long double to 64-bits. What happens is the logic in rs6000.c that > sets the GNU attribute bits, will set the bits for 64-bit long double > if a normal double (DFmode) is used. So I just turned off the > attributes for the whole library. > > This patch replaces the patch I previously did for IEEE 128-bit to turn off > GNU attributes for just the ibm-ldouble.o module. > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-October/556863.html > > I have tested this by building a compiler on a little endian power9 system > running Linux with long double defaulting to 64-bits using the configure > option: --without-long-double-128, and I verified that the warning no longer > is > generated by the linker. > > I then built a bootstrap compiler, by first building a non-bootstrap version. > With that non-bootstrap compiler, I built versions of the MPC and MPFR. Using > those libraries, and the non-bootstrap compiler as the host compiler, I was > able to do a full bootstrap compiler. > > There are differences in the regression test suite where the test implicitly > assumed long double was 128-bits or was a float128 test. > > Can I install this patch into the master branch? I would also like to install > it in the GCC 10 branch after an appropriate period. > > libgcc/ > 2020-10-28 Michael Meissner <meiss...@linux.ibm.com> > > PR libgcc/97543 > * config/rs6000/t-linux (HOST_LIBGCC2_CFLAGS): Don't set > -mlong-double-128 for all modules. Instead set > -mno-gnu-attributes. > (IBM128_OBJS): New make variable for long double support. > (IBM128_S_OBJS): New make variable for long double support. > (IBM128_ALL_OBJS): New make variable for long double support. > (IBM128_CFLAGS): New make variable for long double support. > --- > libgcc/config/rs6000/t-linux | 18 +++++++++++++++++- > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/libgcc/config/rs6000/t-linux b/libgcc/config/rs6000/t-linux > index ed821947b66..b2a079c6b54 100644 > --- a/libgcc/config/rs6000/t-linux > +++ b/libgcc/config/rs6000/t-linux > @@ -1,6 +1,22 @@ > SHLIB_MAPFILES += $(srcdir)/config/rs6000/libgcc-glibc.ver > > -HOST_LIBGCC2_CFLAGS += -mlong-double-128 > +# On the modules that deal with IBM 128-bit values, we need to make sure that > +# TFmode uses the IBM extended double format. > +IBM128_OBJS = ibm-ldouble$(objext) _powitf2$(objext) ppc64-fp$(objext) \ > + _divtc3$(object) _multc3$(object) \ > + _fixtfdi$(object) _fixunstfdi$(object) \ > + _floatditf$(objext) _floatunsditf$(objext) > + > +IBM128_S_OBJS = $(patsubst %$(objext),%_s$(objext),$(IBM128_OBJS)) > +IBM128_ALL_OBJS = $(IBM128_OBJS) $(IBM128_S_OBJS) > + > +IBM128_CFLAGS = -mlong-double-128 -Wno-psabi -mabi=ibmlongdouble > + > +$(IBM128_ALL_OBJS) : INTERNAL_CFLAGS += $(IBM128_CFLAGS) > + > +# Turn off gnu attributes for the whole library. This allows us to build > +# libgcc that supports the different long double formats. > +HOST_LIBGCC2_CFLAGS += -mno-gnu-attribute > > # This is a way of selecting -mcmodel=small for ppc64, which gives > # smaller and faster libgcc code. Directly specifying -mcmodel=small > -- > 2.22.0 > > > -- > Michael Meissner, IBM > IBM, M/S 2506R, 550 King Street, Littleton, MA 01460-6245, USA > email: meiss...@linux.ibm.com, phone: +1 (978) 899-4797
