By Richard Earnshaw at ARM
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>GCC has for a number of years provides a set of pre-defined macros for
>use with determining the ISA and features of the target during
>pre-processing. However, the design was always somewhat cumbersome in
>that each new architecture revision created a new define and then
>removed the previous one. This meant that it was necessary to keep
>updating the support code simply to recognise a new architecture being
>added.
>
>The ACLE specification (ARM C Language Extentions)
>(http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.set.swdev/index.html)
>provides a much more suitable interface and GCC has supported this
>since gcc-4.8.
>
>This patch makes use of the ACLE pre-defines to map to the internal
>feature definitions. To support older versions of GCC a compatibility
>header is provided that maps the traditional pre-defines onto the new
>ACLE ones.
Stop using __FreeBSD_ARCH_armv6__ and switch to __ARM_ARCH >= 6 in the
couple of places in tree. clang already implements ACLE. Add a define
that says we implement version 1.1, even though the implementation
isn't quite complete.
the function bodies require only 2 to 10 instructions. However, it
leads to application binaries that refer to a private ABI, namely, the
softfloat innards in libc. This could complicate future changes in
the implementation of the floating-point emulation layer, so it seems
best to have programs refer to the official fe* entry points in libm.
fenv.h that are currently inlined.
The definitions are provided in fenv.c via 'extern inline'
declaractions. This assumes the compiler handles 'extern inline' as
specified in C99, which has been true under FreeBSD since 8.0.
The goal is to eventually remove the 'static' keyword from the inline
definitions in fenv.h, so that non-inlined references all wind up
pointing to the same external definition like they're supposed to.
I am deferring the second step to provide a window where
newly-compiled apps will still link against old math libraries.
(This isn't supported, but there's no need to cause undue breakage.)
Reviewed by: stefanf, bde
It does not appear to be possible to cross-build arm from i386 at the
moment, and I have no ARM hardware anyway. Thus, I'm sure there are
bugs. I will gladly fix these when the arm port is more mature.
Reviewed by: standards@
