sparc-rtems4.7-gcc versus fpu

[Joel Sherrill]

The gcc version used by RTEMS 4.7 is 4.1.1 with no patches in this area.
I duplicated this behavior with gcc 4.2.0.  gcc 3.2.3 still generated FPU
instructions in his test case.

--joel



Peter A. Krauss wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have downloaded sparc-rtems4.7 and would like to use it for a leon2 target with fpu. I am puzzled on how the compiler inserts fpu instructions. My summary is:
>
> - The compiler does insert fpu instructions, if no fpu command line option is given or if "-mhard-quad-float" is used.
>
> - The compiler does not insert fpu instructions, if "-mfpu" or "-mhard-float" is used.
>
> Why?
>
>
> Peter
>
>
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> $ sparc-rtems-gcc -v
> Using built-in specs.
> Target: sparc-rtems4.7
> Configured with: ../gcc-4.1.1/configure --prefix=/opt/rtems-4.7 --bindir=/opt/rtems-4.7/bin --includedir=/opt/rtems-4.7/include --libdir=/opt/rtems-4.7/lib --libexecdir=/opt/rtems-4.7/lib --mandir=/opt/rtems-4.7/man --infodir=/opt/rtems-4.7/info --datadir=/opt/rtems-4.7/share --build=i686-suse-linux-gnu --host=i686-suse-linux-gnu --target=sparc-rtems4.7 --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --verbose --with-newlib --with-system-zlib --disable-nls --without-included-gettext --disable-win32-registry --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-threads --enable-languages=c,c++
> Thread model: rtems
> gcc version 4.1.1 (RTEMS gcc-4.1.1/newlib-1.15.0-9.suse10.2)
>
>
> $ cat float.c
> float square(float x)
> {
>   return x * x;
> }
>
>
> $ sparc-rtems-gcc -mcpu=cypress -c float.c
> $ sparc-rtems-objdump -d float.o
>
> float.o:     file format elf32-sparc
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <square>:
>    0:   9d e3 bf 98     save  %sp, -104, %sp
>    4:   f0 27 a0 44     st  %i0, [ %fp + 0x44 ]
>    8:   d3 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %f9
>    c:   d1 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %f8
>   10:   91 a2 49 28     fmuls  %f9, %f8, %f8
>   14:   81 a0 00 28     fmovs  %f8, %f0
>   18:   81 e8 00 00     restore
>   1c:   81 c3 e0 08     retl
>   20:   01 00 00 00     nop
>
>
> $ sparc-rtems-gcc -mcpu=cypress -mfpu -c float.c
> $ sparc-rtems-objdump -d float.o
>
> float.o:     file format elf32-sparc
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <square>:
>    0:   9d e3 bf 98     save  %sp, -104, %sp
>    4:   f0 27 a0 44     st  %i0, [ %fp + 0x44 ]
>    8:   d0 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %o0
>    c:   d2 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %o1
>   10:   40 00 00 00     call  10 <square+0x10>
>   14:   01 00 00 00     nop
>   18:   82 10 00 08     mov  %o0, %g1
>   1c:   b0 10 00 01     mov  %g1, %i0
>   20:   81 e8 00 00     restore
>   24:   81 c3 e0 08     retl
>   28:   01 00 00 00     nop
>
>
> $ sparc-rtems-gcc -mcpu=cypress -mhard-float -c float.c
> $ sparc-rtems-objdump -d float.o
>
> float.o:     file format elf32-sparc
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <square>:
>    0:   9d e3 bf 98     save  %sp, -104, %sp
>    4:   f0 27 a0 44     st  %i0, [ %fp + 0x44 ]
>    8:   d0 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %o0
>    c:   d2 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %o1
>   10:   40 00 00 00     call  10 <square+0x10>
>   14:   01 00 00 00     nop
>   18:   82 10 00 08     mov  %o0, %g1
>   1c:   b0 10 00 01     mov  %g1, %i0
>   20:   81 e8 00 00     restore
>   24:   81 c3 e0 08     retl
>   28:   01 00 00 00     nop
>
>
> $ sparc-rtems-gcc -mcpu=cypress -mhard-quad-float -c float.c
> $ sparc-rtems-objdump -d float.o
>
> float.o:     file format elf32-sparc
>
> Disassembly of section .text:
>
> 00000000 <square>:
>    0:   9d e3 bf 98     save  %sp, -104, %sp
>    4:   f0 27 a0 44     st  %i0, [ %fp + 0x44 ]
>    8:   d3 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %f9
>    c:   d1 07 a0 44     ld  [ %fp + 0x44 ], %f8
>   10:   91 a2 49 28     fmuls  %f9, %f8, %f8
>   14:   81 a0 00 28     fmovs  %f8, %f0
>   18:   81 e8 00 00     restore
>   1c:   81 c3 e0 08     retl
>   20:   01 00 00 00     nop
>
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