[edk2-devel] [PATCH] ArmPkg/ArmSoftFloatLib GCC4x: fix build failure
Leif Lindholm
leif.lindholm at linaro.org
Fri May 31 21:12:32 UTC 2019
On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 11:01:15PM +0200, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> The upstream SoftFloat code that was recently incorporated into
> ArmSoftFloatLib uses some parameterization to tweak the inlining
> and optimization behavior for different compilers.
>
> The custom platform.h file that sets these parameters is based on
> the upstream version for Linux/ARM, but was updated to include the
> 'always_inline' GCC attribute into the INLINE macro, to ensure that
> all definitions that are marked as inline are not only inlined into
> their callers, but also to ensure that no version of the function
> is ever emitted into the object file.
>
> This works fine on recent GCC and Clang, but the latter part turns
> out to break on GCC 4.x, resulting in duplicate definition linker
> errors. Fortunately, the synticatically more appriopriate 'static
> inline' works fine on both the recent and the older compilers, so
> let's switch to that instead.
Oh yeah, I knew that, and completely missed it when reviewing.
This behaviour hasn't actually changed substantially in later versions
of GCC. I bet all that's saving us there is LTO :)
> Cc: Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Gao, Liming" <liming.gao at intel.com>
> Cc: "Wang, Jian J" <jian.j.wang at intel.com>
> Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
> Cc: Michael D Kinney <michael.d.kinney at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm at linaro.org>
> ---
> ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/platform.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/platform.h b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/platform.h
> index 31e843463a38..07800a9d5b79 100644
> --- a/ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/platform.h
> +++ b/ArmPkg/Library/ArmSoftFloatLib/platform.h
> @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
> */
>
> #define LITTLEENDIAN 1
> -#define INLINE inline __attribute__((always_inline))
> +#define INLINE static inline
> #define SOFTFLOAT_BUILTIN_CLZ 1
> #define SOFTFLOAT_FAST_INT64
> #include "opts-GCC.h"
> --
> 2.20.1
>
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