It is automatically set when -fPIC is passed to the compiler.
Reviewed by: dim, kib
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1179
We have functions nested within functions, and places where we start a
function then never end it, we just jump to the middle of something else.
We tried to express this with nested ENTRY()/END() macros (which result
in .fnstart and .fnend directives), but it turns out there's no way to
express that nesting in ARM EHABI unwind info, and newer tools treat
multiple .fnstart directives without an intervening .fnend as an error.
These changes introduce two new macros, EENTRY() and EEND(). EENTRY()
creates a global label you can call/jump to just like ENTRY(), but it
doesn't emit a .fnstart. EEND() is a no-op that just documents the
conceptual endpoint that matches up with the same-named EENTRY().
This is based on patches submitted by Stepan Dyatkovskiy, but I made some
changes and added the EEND() stuff, so blame any problems on me.
Submitted by: Stepan Dyatkovskiy <stpworld@narod.ru>
* Stop pretending we support anything other than ELF by removing code
surrounded by #ifdef __ELF__ ... #endif.
* Remove _JB_MAGIC_SETJMP and _JB_MAGIC__SETJMP, they are defined in
setjmp.h, which is able to be included from asm.
* Fix the spelling of dependent.
* Rename END _END and add END and ASEND to complement ENTRY and ASENTRY
respectively
* Add macros to simplify accessing the Global Offset Table, some of these
will be used in the upcoming update to the setjmp functions.
Cummulative patch of changes that are not vendor-specific:
- ARMv6 and ARMv7 architecture support
- ARM SMP support
- VFP/Neon support
- ARM Generic Interrupt Controller driver
- Simplification of startup code for all platforms
It only supports sa1110 (on simics) right now, but xscale support should come
soon.
Some of the initial work has been provided by :
Stephane Potvin <sepotvin at videotron.ca>
Most of this comes from NetBSD.
