On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 12:03, Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> wrote: > > The 'arm-linux-gnueabihf' target triplet we use for CLANG35 and > CLANG38 specifies a hardfloat target, and so the binaries that are > emitted are annotated as using VFP registers for passing floating > point arguments, even though no VFP is used anywhere in the code. > > This works fine as long as we don't try to link against code > that uses software floating point, but combining object files > with different floating point calling conventions is not permitted. > > So switch to the softfloat arm-linux-gnueabi triplet instead. > This affects both the name Clang uses when invoking the linker, > and the arguments it passes to it, and we are mostly interested > in the latter (since any version of GNU ld.bfd will do the right > thing as long as it targets EABI ARM) > > For native builds, this change has no effect, since the unprefixed > system linker will take priority, and so Clang will pass the right > arguments to whichever linker happens to be the system linker. > > For cross builds, the fact that Clang composes the name of the > linker by prefixing '-ld' with the target triplet implies that > users will have to switch to a version of binutils that targets > arm-linux-gnueabi rather than arm-linux-gnueabihf. Note that the > GCCx toolchain targets can use either when building for ARM so this > does not create a need to install two versions of the ARM cross > toolchain. Also, note that all ARM toolchains in the GCC family > are already documented as requiring a toolchain that targets > arm-linux-gnueabi and not arm-linux-gnueabihf. > > Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <[email protected]> > --- > v2: improve commit log >
Liming, Leif: are there any remaining concerns with this patch? > BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template | 4 ++-- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > index 902680c24c85..f7eb87af14c2 100755 > --- a/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > +++ b/BaseTools/Conf/tools_def.template > @@ -5231,7 +5231,7 @@ RELEASE_GCC5_AARCH64_DLINK_XIPFLAGS = -z > common-page-size=0x20 > *_CLANG35_*_DLINK_PATH = ENV(CLANG35_BIN)clang > *_CLANG35_*_ASLDLINK_PATH = ENV(CLANG35_BIN)clang > > -DEFINE CLANG35_ARM_TARGET = -target arm-linux-gnueabihf > +DEFINE CLANG35_ARM_TARGET = -target arm-linux-gnueabi > DEFINE CLANG35_AARCH64_TARGET = -target aarch64-linux-gnu > > DEFINE CLANG35_WARNING_OVERRIDES = -Wno-parentheses-equality > -Wno-tautological-compare -Wno-tautological-constant-out-of-range-compare > -Wno-empty-body -Wno-unknown-warning-option > @@ -5384,7 +5384,7 @@ NOOPT_CLANG38_X64_DLINK2_FLAGS = > DEF(GCC5_X64_DLINK2_FLAGS) -O0 > ################## > # CLANG38 ARM definitions > ################## > -DEFINE CLANG38_ARM_TARGET = -target arm-linux-gnueabihf > +DEFINE CLANG38_ARM_TARGET = -target arm-linux-gnueabi > DEFINE CLANG38_ARM_CC_FLAGS = DEF(GCC_ARM_CC_FLAGS) > DEF(CLANG38_ARM_TARGET) DEF(CLANG38_WARNING_OVERRIDES) -mno-movt > DEFINE CLANG38_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS = DEF(CLANG38_ARM_TARGET) > DEF(GCC_ARM_DLINK_FLAGS) > > -- > 2.19.2 > _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
