Help : warnings when build uclibc for mips

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 07:27:37 UTC 2009


On (13/07/09 05:29), Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 June 2009 16:35:04 Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 12:00 AM, Amker.Cheng<amker.cheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > >      I am currently building uclibc-0.9.30 using gcc-3.4.4 for
> > >
> > > mips-linux, and encountering following warnings:
> > >> libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S: Assembler messages:
> > >> libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S:122: Warning: No .frame pseudo-op used
> > >> in PIC code libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S:75: Warning: Pretending
> > >> global symbol used as branch target is local.
> > >>
> > >> libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S: Assembler messages:
> > >> libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S:134: Warning: No .cprestore pseudo-op
> > >> used in PIC code
> > >
> > > Somebody may found these warnings before, But I could not find any
> > > explanation or solutions
> > >
> > > So, Could anyone help? Thanks in advance.
> >
> > What assembler/binutils version are you using ?
> > is it possible for you to use a newer release
> 
> fwiw, i see the same warnings with binutils-2.17 and gcc-4.1.1.  i dont feel 
> like those are terribly old.
> -mike

Hi

Here is a patch to silence these warnings. I have not tested it. see if
it helps

Thanks

-Khem

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diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S
index 716cd99..15fa295 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/clone.S
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ clone:
 
 	/* Sanity check arguments.  */
 	li		v0,EINVAL
-	beqz		a0,error	/* No NULL function pointers.  */
-	beqz		a1,error	/* No NULL stack pointers.  */
+	beqz		a0,L(error)	/* No NULL function pointers.  */
+	beqz		a1,L(error)	/* No NULL stack pointers.  */
 
 #if _MIPS_SIM != _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
 	and		a1,~(16-1)	/* force alignment */
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ clone:
 	li		v0,__NR_clone
 	syscall
 
-	bnez		a3,error
-	beqz		v0,__thread_start
+	bnez		a3,L(error)
+	beqz		v0,L(__thread_start)
 
 	/* Successful return from the parent */
 #if _MIPS_SIM != _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ clone:
 	j $31  ; nop
 
 	/* Something bad happened -- no child created */
-error:
+L(error):
 #if _MIPS_SIM != _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
 	.cpreturn
 #endif
@@ -104,12 +104,14 @@ error:
    its own function so that we can terminate the stack trace with our
    debug info.  */
 
-.globl  __thread_start;
+	.globl  __thread_start;
 	.align 2;
 	.ent  __thread_start, 0;
 
 __thread_start:
+L(__thread_start):
 #if _MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
+	.frame	sp, 24, sp
 	/* cp is already loaded.  */
 	.cprestore	16
 #endif
@@ -123,5 +125,10 @@ __thread_start:
 
 	/* Call _exit rather than doing it inline for breakpoint purposes.  */
 	move		a0,v0
-	jal		HIDDEN_JUMPTARGET(_exit)
+#ifdef __PIC__
+        PTR_LA          t9,_exit
+        jalr            t9
+#else
+        jal             _exit
+#endif
 	.end  __thread_start
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S
index 2e38cf0..e851d52 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/crt1.S
@@ -81,10 +81,12 @@
 #endif
 	.type	    main, at function
 	.type	    __uClibc_main, at function
+	.ent	__start
 
 __start:
 #ifdef __PIC__
 #if _MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI32
+	.frame	sp, 24, sp
         .set noreorder
 	move $0, $31		/* Save old ra.  */
 	bal 10f			/* Find addr of cpload.  */
@@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ __start:
 	.cpload $31
 	move $31, $0
 	.set reorder
+	.cprestore 16
 #else
 	move $0, $31; /* Save old ra.  */
 	.set noreorder
@@ -108,7 +111,6 @@ __start:
 	move $31, $0
 #endif
 
-
 	PTR_LA $4, main		/* main */
 	PTR_L $5, 0($29)		/* argc */
 	PTR_ADDIU $6, $29, PTRSIZE	/* argv  */
@@ -136,6 +138,7 @@ hlt:
 	/* Crash if somehow `__uClibc_main' returns anyway.  */
 	b   hlt
 .size __start,.-__start
+.end __start
 
 /* Define a symbol for the first piece of initialized data.  */
 	.data
diff --git a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/sys/asm.h b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/sys/asm.h
index 76f6af3..79d1439 100644
--- a/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/sys/asm.h
+++ b/libc/sysdeps/linux/mips/sys/asm.h
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ l:							\
 # define SETUP_GPX64_L(cp_reg, ra_save, l)
 # define RESTORE_GP64
 # define USE_ALT_CP(a)
+# define L(label) $L ## label
 #else /* (_MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_ABI64) || (_MIPS_SIM == _MIPS_SIM_NABI32) */
 /*
  * For callee-saved gp calling convention:
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ l:							\
 /* Use alternate register for context pointer.  */
 # define USE_ALT_CP(reg)	\
 		.cplocal reg
+# define L(label) .L ## label
 #endif /* _MIPS_SIM != _MIPS_SIM_ABI32 */
 
 /*


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