On Mon, Jan 11, 2021, at 8:07 AM, Christophe Lyon wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 14:09, Christophe Lyon <christophe.l...@linaro.org> 
> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 9 Jan 2021 at 13:27, Daniel Engel <lib...@danielengel.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2021, at 4:56 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > > On 07/01/2021 00:59, Daniel Engel wrote:
> > > > > --snip--
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021, at 9:05 AM, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > > > > --snip--
> > > > >
> > > > >> - finally, your popcount implementations have data in the code 
> > > > >> segment.
> > > > >>  That's going to cause problems when we have compilation options 
> > > > >> such as
> > > > >> -mpure-code.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am just following the precedent of existing lib1funcs (e.g. 
> > > > > __clz2si).
> > > > > If this matters, you'll need to point in the right direction for the
> > > > > fix.  I'm not sure it does matter, since these functions are PIC 
> > > > > anyway.
> > > >
> > > > That might be a bug in the clz implementations - Christophe: Any 
> > > > thoughts?
> > >
> > > __clzsi2() has test coverage in "gcc.c-torture/execute/builtin-bitops-1.c"
> > Thanks, I'll have a closer look at why I didn't see problems.
> >
> 
> So, that's because the code goes to the .text section (as opposed to
> .text.noread)
> and does not have the PURECODE flag. The compiler takes care of this
> when generating code with -mpure-code.
> And the simulator does not complain because it only checks loads from
> the segment with the PURECODE flag set.
> 
This is far out of my depth, but can something like: 

ifeq (,$(findstring __symbian__,$(shell $(gcc_compile_bare) -dM -E - 
</dev/null)))

be adapted to:

a) detect the state of the -mpure-code switch, and
b) pass that flag to the preprocessor?

If so, I can probably fix both the target section and the data usage.  
Just have to add a few instructions to finish unrolling the loop. 

> > > The 'clzs' and 'ctz' functions should never have problems.   -mpure-code
> > > appears to be valid only when the 'movt' instruction is available, which
> > > means that the 'clz' instruction will also be available, so no array 
> > > loads.
> > No, -mpure-code is also supported with v6m.
> >
> > > Is the -mpure-code state detectable as a preprocessor flag?  While
> > No.
> >
> > > 'movw'/'movt' appears to be the canonical solution, I'm not sure it
> > > should be the default just because a processor supports Thumb-2.
> > >
> > > Do users wanting to use -mpure-code recompile the toolchain to avoid
> > > constant data in compiled C functions?  I don't think this is the
> > > default for the typical toolchain scripts.
> > No, users of -mpure-code do not recompile the toolchain.
> >
> > --snip --

>

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