Re: difference between xscale and iwmmxt

[Khem Raj <kraj at mvista dot com>]

Hi Bridge

I think there should be no differences in calling convention if you are 
configuring toolchain with EABI.
with Old ABI there may be differences because iwmmxt has it  own  ABI
which was  different.

Thanks

Khem

Bridge Wu said the following on 9/6/2006 7:53 PM:
> Hello,
>
> It seems -mcpu=xscale and -mcpu=iwmmxt not only mean for different
> target, but also mean different calling convention. E.g, look at issue
> below.
>
> I built an arm linux tool chain with gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.2 and
> binutils-2.14.90.0.7 by using crosstool. I set
> GCC_EXTRA_CONFIG="--with-cpu=iwmmxt --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=iwmmxt".
>
> % cat floattest.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> int main()
> {
>        float a;
>
>        printf("%f\n", 1.0/3.0);
>        return 0;
> }
>
> % arm-linux-gcc floattest.c -mcpu=xscale
> The result is wrong.
>
> % arm-linux-gcc floattest.c
> % arm-linux-gcc floattest.c -mcpu=iwmmxt
> Both the results are correct.
>
> Look at the generated assembly code, I find "ldmia   r1, {r1, r2}" is
> used before invoking printf() with -mcpu=xscale, while "ldmia   r2,
> {r2, r3}" is used with -mcpu=iwmmxt. It shows these two options have
> different calling convention.
>
> Then which PCS (procedure call standard) do xscale and iwmmxt follow
> up respectively? Are there any clues to this?

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Khem Raj <kraj@mvista.com>
MontaVista Software Inc.