S32 Design StudioのトピックRe: GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

erikmoqvist — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 19:31:17 GMT

Hello,

I'm using powerpc-eabivle-gcc 4.9.2 (S32DS 1.1), but want to switch to 4.9.4 (S32DS 1.2). However, it seems there is a problem with the wait-instruction encoding in 4.9.4. To illustrate the problem the file test.c (see below) is compiled with gcc 4.9.2 and 4.9.4, and the object files are disassembled to show the difference in the instructions.

The C source file test.c:

int test()
{
asm volatile ("wait");
}

Output using GCC 4.9.2:

$ powerpc-eabivle-gcc -mvle -O2 -c -o test-4.9.2.o test.c
$ powerpc-eabivle-objdump -d test-4.9.2.o > test-4.9.2.o.dis
$ cat test-4.9.2.o.dis
test-4.9.2.o: file format elf32-powerpc

Disassembly of section .text:
00000000 <test>:
0: 7c 00 00 7c wait
4: 00 04 se_blr

Output using GCC 4.9.4:

$ powerpc-eabivle-gcc -mvle -O2 -c -o test-4.9.4.o test.c
$ powerpc-eabivle-objdump -d test-4.9.4.o > test-4.9.4.o.dis
$ cat test-4.9.4.o.dis
test-4.9.4.o: file format elf32-powerpc

Disassembly of section .text:
00000000 <test>:
0: 7c 00 00 3c .long 0x7c00003c
4: 00 04 se_blr

For some reason the wait-instruction becomes 0x7c00007c with 4.9.2 and 0x7c00003c with 4.9.4. Also note that the disassembler fails to decode the 4.9.4 instruction and outputs a general .long value.

Is this the expected behavior, a bug in gcc/binutils, or something else? Looks like a bug to me.

Thanks!

Re: GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

stanish — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 20:05:32 GMT

Hello Erik,

Thanks for this report.

The correct opcode for wait instruction is 0x7C00007C

I'd recommend you to use a direct instruction opcode as a workaround:

__asm (".long 0x7C00007C")‍‍

I'm going to log this issue as a defect into our defect tracking database

Stan

Re: GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

jschloss — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 01:11:31 GMT

Hi, has this been fixed in 2017.R1?

Re: GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

stanish — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:21:47 GMT

Hi,

This fix is NOT available in the latest version of S32DS 2017.R1.

Anyway the issue has been already fixed but haven't released it yet.

Currently the product team is scheduling when and how to release this update.

Stan

Re: GCC 4.9.4 wait instruction bug?

alexanderfedoto — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 10:09:12 GMT

This issue is fixed in Update 2 S32 Design Studio for Power Architecture 2017.R1 - Update 2 available

#cmpe200gcc-176