Re: [fpc-pascal] System call ABI problem on ppc Linux

[Tobias Giesen]

Interesting! But my report was based on my development machine, a PowerBook G4.

Apparently the special instructions are not used or not causing a problem 
because it also runs fine on the NAS.


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Please excuse the shortness of this mail which was sent from my mobile phone. 
If necessary, I will send more information later.

Cheers,
Tobias Giesen

> Am 05.12.2017 um 19:20 schrieb Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) 
> :
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, tobiasgie...@gmail.com wrote:
>> 
>> I think the only problem is with fpmake, which doesn't include
>> FPC_ABI_EABI for powerpc 32-bit processors.
>> 
>> My use case is running my software on a Synology DS-413 NAS, which has a
>> PowerPC processor. It's only a few years old. Nowadays they use only
>> Intel and ARM.
> 
> Please note that your NAS has a Freescale P1022 CPU, which has an e500v2
> CPU core. In Linux architecture terms, this isn't a regular PowerPC but
> PowerPCSPE, as it has a non-standard FPU. This means that classic PowerPC
> FPU instructions are not supported, or supported only with kernel
> emulation. It's also entirely incompatible with regular applications using
> Altivec or VMX SIMD, as the instruction encoding overlaps. It could also
> mean that the syscall ABI *could* be different to regular PowerPCs. I
> don't know if it is, but could be.
> 
> Free Pascal doesn't support PPCSPE CPUs officially (we always generate
> classic FPU code for memory copies for example, and the PPC code generator
> doesn't support the SPE FPU or the softfpu at this point), so at least we
> should verify if your patch doesn't cause problems on regular PPC Linux
> installations, or if this bug also exist there.
> 
> Charlie
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Re: [fpc-pascal] System call ABI problem on ppc Linux

[Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)]

Hi,

On Tue, 5 Dec 2017, tobiasgie...@gmail.com wrote:

> I think the only problem is with fpmake, which doesn't include
> FPC_ABI_EABI for powerpc 32-bit processors.
>
> My use case is running my software on a Synology DS-413 NAS, which has a
> PowerPC processor. It's only a few years old. Nowadays they use only
> Intel and ARM.

Please note that your NAS has a Freescale P1022 CPU, which has an e500v2
CPU core. In Linux architecture terms, this isn't a regular PowerPC but
PowerPCSPE, as it has a non-standard FPU. This means that classic PowerPC
FPU instructions are not supported, or supported only with kernel
emulation. It's also entirely incompatible with regular applications using
Altivec or VMX SIMD, as the instruction encoding overlaps. It could also
mean that the syscall ABI *could* be different to regular PowerPCs. I
don't know if it is, but could be.

Free Pascal doesn't support PPCSPE CPUs officially (we always generate
classic FPU code for memory copies for example, and the PPC code generator
doesn't support the SPE FPU or the softfpu at this point), so at least we
should verify if your patch doesn't cause problems on regular PPC Linux
installations, or if this bug also exist there.

Charlie
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Re: [fpc-pascal] System call ABI problem on ppc Linux

[tobiasgiesen]

Hi,
I will check it but the app really runs fine now after changing only 
FpFtruncate, and 
also FppRead and FppWrite (which nobody seems to use anyway). These are the 
occurrences of {$ifdef FPC_ABI_EABI}.

I think the only problem is with fpmake, which doesn't include FPC_ABI_EABI for
powerpc 32-bit processors.

My use case is running my software on a Synology DS-413 NAS, which has a PowerPC
processor. It's only a few years old. Nowadays they use only Intel and ARM.

For old times' sake I will also release it for Mac OS / ppc.

Cheers,
Tobias



On Tue, 5 Dec 2017 14:55:41 +0100 (CET)
mar...@stack.nl (Marco van de Voort) wrote:

> In our previous episode, Tobias Giesen said:
> > I just filed a bug report about FpFtruncate passing the parameters 
> > incorrectly to the
> > system. For example, setting a file size to $D would cause the file to have 
> > the size
> > $D  000D. Apparently the conditional define FPC_ABI_EABI would fix it, 
> > but what
> > other impact does it have?
> > 
> > I wonder which other system calls might be affected? My application seems 
> > to work
> > fine except for this function.
> > 
> > https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32772
> 
> I replied. Roughly anything with an 64-bit argument, (typically off_t) most
> notably mmap.
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Re: [fpc-pascal] System call ABI problem on ppc Linux

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Tobias Giesen said:
> I just filed a bug report about FpFtruncate passing the parameters 
> incorrectly to the
> system. For example, setting a file size to $D would cause the file to have 
> the size
> $D  000D. Apparently the conditional define FPC_ABI_EABI would fix it, 
> but what
> other impact does it have?
> 
> I wonder which other system calls might be affected? My application seems to 
> work
> fine except for this function.
> 
> https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32772

I replied. Roughly anything with an 64-bit argument, (typically off_t) most
notably mmap.
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[fpc-pascal] System call ABI problem on ppc Linux

[Tobias Giesen]

Hello,

I just filed a bug report about FpFtruncate passing the parameters incorrectly 
to the
system. For example, setting a file size to $D would cause the file to have the 
size
$D  000D. Apparently the conditional define FPC_ABI_EABI would fix it, but 
what
other impact does it have?

I wonder which other system calls might be affected? My application seems to 
work
fine except for this function.

https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=32772

Cheers,
Tobias


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