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Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc: Add --with-avrlibc configure option for AVR-


From: Georg-Johann Lay
Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] avr-gcc: Add --with-avrlibc configure option for AVR-Libc cooperation?
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 15:56:31 +0200
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Weddington, Eric schrieb:
On Behalf Of Georg-Johann Lay

for historical reasons, AVR-Libc implements functions that
GCC expects to live in libgcc, namely float functions like
__fixsfsi.

Currently, avr-gcc is not configurable to accommodate that
situation which leads to performance problems if the float
support functions from libgcc are used.

This happens at least in the following situations:

* The user does not specify -lm.  -lm should only be needed
   if function from math.h are used, not for language core
   features like int i = (int) float.

* The application is LTO compiled, i.e. linked with -flto.
   The plugin machinery passes lgcc -lc lgcc through to the
   linker by means of -plugin-opt=-pass-through=-lgcc etc.
   so that -lgcc is linked prior to -lm.

* The user uses fixed <-> float conversion routines from
   libgcc.  These routines refer float functions, and the linker
   resolves these function in libgcc if they are there.

* avr-g++ is used as linker driver.

Yes, we definitely want to make sure all the above are working.
In order to fix all of these cases, at least two changes
are needed in the compiler.

1) Remove respective functions from libgcc

2) libm.a is not a "math library", it is a "libgcc supplement".
    Thus, -lm has to be treated like libgcc.

Joerg Wunsch and I have talked for years about the idea of
integrating libm into libc, so that way there was only one library
to deal with. Would this be a good point to do that as well?
Would that make all the linker flag stuff easier to deal with?

If there are plans to integrate libm into libc then this should
be done *before* GCC supports --with-avrlibc configure option.

Otherwise, AVR-Libc would knock out itself making the linker throw
a "cannot find -lm" or similar linker error which would make that
configure option obsolete...

The preferred way would be *not* to move libm to libc so
that the library layout is stable and the configure option
works across various versions of AVR-Libc, even older ones.

The intersection between libgcc and AVR-Libc is stable and
did not change often, if I see correctly.  Changing the layout
just now might be not helpful; except in the case there is
a dummy libm.a that prevents "cannot find -lm" link error.

Johann




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