Soft Float for PC386

[Angelo Fraietta]

Wait on that, I have just found that there was another RPM made, being the i386-rtems-gcc-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0-1.i386.rpm   as
well as the rtems-base-gcc-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0-1.i386.rpm
(I thought my machine had frozen up after the first RPM was made)
I'll rebuild RTEMS and check again. Sorry about that.

Angelo Fraietta wrote:

> The computer no longer re-boots when running two tasks with  the -mno-fp-ret-in-387 flags.
> However, there are still co-processor commands occuring. This is where the exception occurs:
>
> with CPU_CFLAGS =-msoft-float -mno-fp-ret-in-387
>
>   10ba89: 5e                    pop    %esi
>   10ba8a: 5f                    pop    %edi
>   10ba8b: dd 45 f0              fldl   0xfffffff0(%ebp)
>   10ba8e: c9                    leave
>
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>
> > Angelo Fraietta wrote:
> > >
> > > If I build the pc386 with both the -mno-fp-ret-in-387 and the -msoft-float flags
> > > the machine re-boots if you try to create a task. Eg, if you try to run the
> > > ticker sample, the machine re-boots.  If you only use the -msoft-float and not
> > > the -mno-fp-ret-in-387 flag, the tasks run OK.
> > > I am mentioning this because the ts_386ex build uses both flags, and so if
> > > someone tests these on a ts_386ex, they may want to try running ticker on it to
> > > see if it crashes.
> > >
> > This doesn't surprize me, because newlib unconditionally inserts
> > FPU-code into its libc, no matter which compiler options are used
> > for building it. I.e. at least one cause of your problems is lurking
> > in newlib.
> >
> > I believe to have fixed this issue, so you could consider rebuilding
> > your gcc-newlib rpms, using the *.nosrc.rpm below, which contains my
> > fixes.
> >
> > Procedure for rebuilding:
> > 1) Copy gcc-2.95.2.tar.gz and newlib-1.9.0.tar.gz to
> > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.
> >
> > 2) rpm -i i386-rtems-gcc-newlib-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0-1.nosrc.rpm
> > [This will install RTEMS diffs and my patches to
> > /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES]
> >
> > 3)
> > export PATH=/opt/rtems/bin:$PATH
> > rpm -bb
> > /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/i386-rtems-gcc-newlib-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0.spec
> > [Now wait a couple of hours for the built to finish. Requires 500MB
> > to 1GB of free diskspace below /usr/src/redhat]
> >
> > 4) /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 now should contain the new
> > i386-rtems-*.rpms
> >
> > 5) Rebuild RTEMS w/ -msoft-float -mno-fp-ret-in-387.
> >
> > 6) Test at run-time.
> >
> > Hope that helps.
> >
> > FYI: These patches already are submitted to Joel and to the newlib
> > maintainers.
> >
> > AFAIK, Joel already is preparing new RTEMS toolchain rpms. So if you
> > can't build the toolchain yourself for some reason, it's probably
> > only a matter of days until new RTEMS toolchain rpms will appear on
> > OAR's site.
> >
> > Ralf
> >
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> >
> >   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >                                                              Name: i386-rtems-gcc-newlib-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0-1.nosrc.rpm
> >    i386-rtems-gcc-newlib-gcc2.95.2newlib1.9.0-1.nosrc.rpm    Type: RealPlayer(tm) as Plug-in (audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin)
> >                                                          Encoding: base64
>
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> Angelo Fraietta
>
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Angelo Fraietta

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