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commit r15-6711-g36eee5a74eb6d4c48a3a22cd71b3944bac499d0a Author: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauerm...@linaro.org> Date: Fri Dec 27 18:47:56 2024 -0300 gcc/configure: Fix check for assembler section merging support on Arm In 32-bit Arm assembly, the @ character is the start of a comment so the section type needs to use the % character instead. configure.ac attempts to account for this difference by doing a second try when checking the assembler for section merging support. Unfortunately there is a bug: because the gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE macro has a call to AC_CACHE_CHECK, it will actually skip the second try because the gcc_cv_as_shf_merge variable has already been set: checking assembler for section merging support... no checking assembler for section merging support... (cached) no Fix by using a separate variable for the second try, as is done in the check for COMDAT group support. This problem was noticed because the recent binutils commit d5cbf916be4a ("gas/ELF: also reject merge entity size being zero") caused gas to be stricter about mergeable sections without an entity size: configure:27013: checking assembler for section merging support configure:27022: /path/to/as --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s >&5 conftest.s: Assembler messages: conftest.s:1: Warning: invalid merge / string entity size conftest.s: Error: 1 warning, treating warnings as errors configure:27025: $? = 1 configure: failed program was .section .rodata.str, "aMS", @progbits, 1 configure:27036: result: no In previous versions of gas the conftest.s program above was accepted and configure detected support for section merging. See also: https://linaro.atlassian.net/browse/GNU-1427 https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32491 Tested on armv8l-linux-gnueabihf. gcc/ChangeLog: * configure.ac: Fix check for HAVE_GAS_SHF_MERGE on Arm targets. * configure: Regenerate. Diff: --- gcc/configure | 17 +++++++++-------- gcc/configure.ac | 6 ++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/configure b/gcc/configure index a495762724d7..b4c52de62184 100755 --- a/gcc/configure +++ b/gcc/configure @@ -27038,12 +27038,12 @@ $as_echo "$gcc_cv_as_shf_merge" >&6; } if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = no; then - { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking assembler for section merging support" >&5 -$as_echo_n "checking assembler for section merging support... " >&6; } -if ${gcc_cv_as_shf_merge+:} false; then : + { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking assembler for section merging support (%progbits)" >&5 +$as_echo_n "checking assembler for section merging support (%progbits)... " >&6; } +if ${gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent+:} false; then : $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6 else - gcc_cv_as_shf_merge=no + gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent=no if test x$gcc_cv_as != x; then $as_echo '.section .rodata.str, "aMS", %progbits, 1' > conftest.s if { ac_try='$gcc_cv_as $gcc_cv_as_flags --fatal-warnings -o conftest.o conftest.s >&5' @@ -27053,7 +27053,7 @@ else $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: \$? = $ac_status" >&5 test $ac_status = 0; }; } then - gcc_cv_as_shf_merge=yes + gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent=yes else echo "configure: failed program was" >&5 cat conftest.s >&5 @@ -27061,14 +27061,15 @@ else rm -f conftest.o conftest.s fi fi -{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge" >&5 -$as_echo "$gcc_cv_as_shf_merge" >&6; } +{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent" >&5 +$as_echo "$gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent" >&6; } fi cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF -#define HAVE_GAS_SHF_MERGE `if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = yes; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi` +#define HAVE_GAS_SHF_MERGE `if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = yes \ + || test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent = yes; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi` _ACEOF diff --git a/gcc/configure.ac b/gcc/configure.ac index 242616380966..6c38c4925fb3 100644 --- a/gcc/configure.ac +++ b/gcc/configure.ac @@ -3612,12 +3612,14 @@ gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE(section merging support, gcc_cv_as_shf_merge, [--fatal-warnings], [.section .rodata.str, "aMS", @progbits, 1]) if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = no; then - gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE(section merging support, gcc_cv_as_shf_merge, + gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE(section merging support (%progbits), + gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent, [--fatal-warnings], [.section .rodata.str, "aMS", %progbits, 1]) fi AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(HAVE_GAS_SHF_MERGE, - [`if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = yes; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi`], + [`if test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge = yes \ + || test $gcc_cv_as_shf_merge_percent = yes; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi`], [Define 0/1 if your assembler supports marking sections with SHF_MERGE flag.]) gcc_GAS_CHECK_FEATURE([COMDAT group support (GNU as)],