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Re: [Qemu-devel] dyngen porting - workaround for st_size==0


From: Herbert Poetzl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] dyngen porting - workaround for st_size==0
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 01:36:07 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:06:41PM +0300, address@hidden wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  I'm compiling qemu using the nisa-elf compiler, a cross compiler for the
> BF533, a dsp by analog devices. After some tweaking I managed to compile
> dyngen and a bunch of other files, until the point where dyngen is
> executed to create op.h and opc.h.
> 
>  At that point I get error messages that complain about empty code for
> _op_SOMETHING (sorry for no pasted make logs - I'm writing this on a
> different machine. btw the added underscore is a change I had to make
> since the nisa-elf compiler produces function symbols with that
> underscore prepended). I looked into dyngen and found that it was ok, the
> problem is that the elf objects that nisa-elf-gcc produces have
> sym->st_size == 0! This doesn't prevent them from running at the end, but
> it prevents me from compiling qemu.. let alone running it..
> 
>  I can't change the st_size field without hacking the toolchain, which is
> very hard - is there any way to make dyngen work without the size field?
> will any of the following work:
>  sort the symbols according to st_value (address), and take the difference
> to be the size that the JIT should copy.
>  or: from st_value look for the RTS opcode (10 00 for the BF533, a 16 bit
> instruction processor), assuming there is only one for each function.

how about that: define a label at the end of the
code, something like _op_SOMETHING_end, and just
use/store the difference between this and the _op
symbol ...

>  Any other ideas are appreciated, help!

HTH,
Herbert

> Alon
> 
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