nios2 and atomic operations

[Joel Sherrill]

On 4/20/2015 2:36 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
> ----- Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> schrieb:
>>
>> On 4/20/2015 2:18 PM, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> ----- Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> schrieb:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> As I mentioned earlier, nios2 does not link C++ iostream because of an
>>>> undefined reference:
>>>>
>>>> /users/joel/rtems-4.11-work/tools/lib/gcc/nios2-rtems4.11/4.9.2/libstdc++.a(locale-inst.o):/users/joel/rtems-4.11-work/rtems-source-builder/rtems/build/nios2-rtems4.11-gcc-4.9.2-newlib-2.2.0.20150323-x86_64-linux-gnu-1/build/nios2-rtems4.11/libstdc++-v3/include/ext/atomicity.h:49:
>>>> more undefined references to `__sync_fetch_and_add_4' follow
>>>>
>>>> I don't see anything obviously different about this target. Can someone
>>>> take a look at this please? It has to be something small.
>>> I guess Nios II lacks support for atomic operations, so the operating system must provide them in terms of helper functions.  Maybe we need a port of libatomic for this target.  It looks like something bigger.
>>>
>> That's what I was coming to believe. But why don't see this on other
>> targets?
>> I don't see how libatomic would be broken for just Nios2. We don't have
>> RTEMS
>> specific configuration in it and it only has a few ports.
> As far as I know we have no support of libatomic for RTEMS.
I see no evidence of this but am not sure how the other targets don't
trip this.
>> What do you mean by "It looks like something bigger"?
> The Linux Nios2 configuration has something like this:
>
> /* Implement TARGET_INIT_LIBFUNCS.  */
> static void
> nios2_init_libfuncs (void)
> {
>   /* For Linux, we have access to kernel support for atomic operations.  */
>   if (TARGET_LINUX_ABI)
>     init_sync_libfuncs (UNITS_PER_WORD);
> }
Yeah. We don't have that.
> You have to dig into the GCC configuration, and this is always time consuming.  I would file a GCC PR.
>
I will see if I can duplicate this for nios2-elf first.

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