Hi! In a toolchain where GCC has been configured for --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu, and where an x86_64 multilib has also been configured, by default GCC will generate code for 32-bit mode, and for 64-bit mode only when -m64 is passed. Per ASM_SPEC definition, the -m64 option is translated to --64 when invoking the assembler. This is working fine.
What however is not working fine is GCC's very own configure testing.
When using said toolchain for building on/for x86_64-linux-gnu by
configuring a native GCC build with CC='gcc -m64' CXX='g++ -m64', I'm
seeing the following happen in [GCC]/gcc/configure:
configure:23559: checking assembler for thread-local storage support
configure:23572: [...]/bin/as --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s
>&5
conftest.s: Assembler messages:
conftest.s:5: Error: bad register name `%rax'
[...]
configure: failed program was
.section ".tdata","awT",@progbits
foo: .long 25
.text
movq %fs:0, %rax
[...]
configure:23586: result: no
In this toolchain, an unadorned invocation of as will default to 32-bit
mode, and enter 64-bit mode only when an explicit --64 is passed -- which
is not done here.
This is, from a quick glance, the "inverse" thing as has once been
discussed in <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR42345>,
<http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3C20091210175824.GA32242%40lucon.org%3E>.
Wanting to use this toolchain, do I have to configure GCC pointing to an
assembler that defaults to 64-bit mode, or use something like
--with-as='as --64' (not checked whether that works), or should the GCC
configure system deduce from $CXX' -m64 that it needs to pass --64 to the
assembler (à la ASM_SPEC as indicated above), or is the following patch
the way to go, or something else? H.J., the gnux32 change is just a
guess; please comment if that's not right. (And, of course, this is not
a problem specific to *-*-linux*, but changing that is for another day.)
gcc/
* acinclude.m4 (gcc_GAS_FLAGS): Add more gcc_cv_as_flags
overrides.
* configure: Regenerate.
--- gcc/acinclude.m4
+++ gcc/acinclude.m4
@@ -444,8 +444,16 @@ AC_DEFUN([gcc_GAS_FLAGS],
[AC_CACHE_CHECK([assembler flags], gcc_cv_as_flags,
[ case "$target" in
i[[34567]]86-*-linux*)
- dnl Always pass --32 to ia32 Linux assembler.
- gcc_cv_as_flags="--32"
+ dnl Override the default, which may be incompatible.
+ gcc_cv_as_flags=--32
+ ;;
+ x86_64-*-linux-gnux32)
+ dnl Override the default, which may be incompatible.
+ gcc_cv_as_flags=--x32
+ ;;
+ x86_64-*-linux*)
+ dnl Override the default, which may be incompatible.
+ gcc_cv_as_flags=--64
;;
powerpc*-*-darwin*)
dnl Always pass -arch ppc to assembler.
Grüße,
Thomas
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