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.

--Sean

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