rtems-libbsd: M68K linkcmds Patches Galore

[Joel Sherrill]

On 08/17/2012 08:23 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> On 08/17/2012 03:02 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>> Why do we have CPU specific variants of this?  On ARM, PowerPC, etc. this file
>>> would look like identical.
>> Some targets place a leading underscore in front of symbols. If you have every
>> symbol both with and without an extra _ prepended, then it will be Ok. For
>> example,
>> both _bsd__stop_set_sysinit_set and __bsd__stop_set_sysinit_set would have
>> to be defined.
>>
>> This is all the targets I have tools installed for and whether or not they add a
>> leading underscore.
>>
>>          arm-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>          avr-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         bfin-rtems4.11 - leading underscore
>>        h8300-rtems4.11 - leading underscore
>>         i386-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         lm32-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         m32c-rtems4.11 - leading underscore
>>         m32r-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         m68k-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>> microblaze-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         mips-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>      powerpc-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>           sh-rtems4.11 - leading underscore
>>      sparc64-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>        sparc-rtems4.11 - no leading underscore
>>         v850-rtems4.11 - leading underscore
> With this extra underscore can be dealt in the macros that generate these symbols.
>
> The CPU port should provide a macro like
>
> #define CPU_LINKER_SYMBOL_NAME(_x) _ ## _x
>
> or
>
> #define CPU_LINKER_SYMBOL_NAME(_x) _x
The C compiler automatically prepends the _. These are more useful
in assembly where you need to follow what the compiler does implicitly.
> Even if we deal with the underscore in the linker command files, then I see
> only two variants and not one for each CPU.

Or one variant which provides both versions of the symbol.
> Is this underscore a GNU linker feature or defined in the ABI?
>
ABI as Ralf points out.

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