Sean Anderson <[email protected]> schrieb am Mo., 20. Okt. 2025,
16:21:

> On 10/18/25 03:21, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
> > On 10/17/25 23:35, Sean Anderson wrote:
> >> When semihosting 32-bit systems, the return value of FLEN will be stored
> >> in a 32-bit integer. To prevent wraparound, return -1 and set EOVERFLOW.

>> This matches the behavior of stat(2). Static files don't need to be
> >> checked, since are always small.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <[email protected]>
> >> ---
> >>
> >>   semihosting/arm-compat-semi.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
> >>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/semihosting/arm-compat-semi.c
> b/semihosting/arm-compat-semi.c
> >> index c5a07cb947..57453ca6be 100644
> >> --- a/semihosting/arm-compat-semi.c
> >> +++ b/semihosting/arm-compat-semi.c
> >> @@ -305,8 +305,19 @@ static uint64_t common_semi_flen_buf(CPUState *cs)
> >>       return sp - 64;
> >>   }
> >>   +static void common_semi_flen_cb(CPUState *cs, uint64_t ret, int err)
> >> +{
> >> +    CPUArchState *env = cpu_env(cs);
> >> +
> >> +    if (!err && !is_64bit_semihosting(env) && ret > INT32_MAX) {
> >
> >
> > The issue with the current implementation is that files with file sizes
> over 4 GiB will be reported as file size < 4 -GiB on 32bit systems. Thanks
> for addressing this.
> >
> > But unfortunately with your change you are additionally dropping support
> for file sizes 2 GiB to 4 GiB on 32bit devices. This should be avoided.
> >
> > The semihosting specification specifies that the value returned in r0
> should be -1 if an error occurs. So on 32 bit systems 0xffffffff should be
> returned.
> >
> > As file sizes cannot be negative there is not reason to assume that the
> value in r0 has to be interpreted by semihosting clients as signed.
> >
> > Please, change your commit to check against 0xffffffff.
> >
> > It might make sense to contact ARM to make their specification clearer.
>
> stat(2) will return -1/EOVERFLOW on 32-bit hosts for files over 2 GiB. I
> believe we should be consistent.
>

That may have been true historically.

Current 32-bit Linux supports 64-bit file systems and reports the length of
files beyond 2 GiB without error.

Best regards

Heinrich

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