[Bug c/19571] New: floating point registers not preserved during function call
jack at cs dot york dot ac dot uk
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Fri Jan 21 23:47:00 GMT 2005
The code generator for the ARM target does not preserve register f5 (and
possibly other floating point registers) when they are clobbered by a function.
Thus, if function uses those registers and calls another function which uses
them too, the caller behaves weirdly.
The bug has been found in GCC version 3.4.3 while cross-compiling using an i386.
However it also exists in much earlier versions, including 2.95.x (see bug 19547).
The attached test case demonstrates the bug. main() (in demo.c) calls __cos,
which is defined in s_sin.c. s_sin.c has been taken verbatim from glibc 2.3.3,
along with all the source code required to allow it to compile, which I have
included in the test case for your convenience. During the call to __cos, the
register f5 is clobbered. This is a problem, because main() is using it to store
the value of variable s.
Please note that this is not a glibc bug. __cos is written entirely in C, and
therefore (as far as I can see) this is a problem with the compiler.
The test case may be built using the build.sh script.
An execution transcript has been included (transcript.txt), along with a
disassembly of the functions involved (disassembly.txt). Bug 19547 has more
details about the bug too, and I am happy to send you more information if you
need it.
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Summary: floating point registers not preserved during function
call
Product: gcc
Version: 3.4.3
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: c
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: jack at cs dot york dot ac dot uk
CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
GCC build triplet: i686-unknown-linux
GCC host triplet: i686-unknown-linux
GCC target triplet: arm-unknown-linux
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19571
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