problem with sparc-elf gcc cross-compiler under fedora 8
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Thu May 15 00:53:52 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 11:36 -0700, Jim DiNunzio wrote:
> Hi,
> We are getting different and broken object file output running the same gcc
> cross-compiler on different machines with different versions of fedora.
>
> There are no errors, just different binary output. Most files compile to
> identical object files on both machines, but some don't. The program built
> on the fedora 8 machine when run on the embedded system reboots somewhere in
> its startup sequence continuously. The one built on the older machine runs
> fine.
>
> We suspect the problem may be with the different versions of shared library
> residing on the local machine, libc (2.2.93 in the working case and 2.7 in
> the non-working case) However all attempts to reproduce the shared library
> environment on the working machine using LD_LIBRARY_PATH have failed. Please
> see script at bottom of this email. Below is the shared library
> dependencies of the assembler which is producing different output from
> identical assembly output (.s file) input.
>
> As an last resort we are considering downgrading to Fedora 6, the last known
> version on which we know the compile works. We don't have the option of
> rebuilding the cross-compiler at this point since we don't want to break
> anybody else.
>
> Thanks for any insights you might have.
>
> Jim
>
>
> Buiding on machine 1 produces bad output, while building on machine 2
> produces correct output.
>
> this is the compiler:
> compiler/2.95.2/sparc-elf/bin/sparc-elf-g++
>
> Dependency output
>
> > ldd compiler/2.95.2/sparc-elf/sparc-elf/bin/as
> linux-gate.so.1 => (0x00110000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x049bb000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x001f3000)
>
> Version information:
> /export/dev/compiler/2.95.2/sparc-elf/sparc-elf/bin/as:
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/libc.so.6
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/libc.so.6
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/libc.so.6
> /lib/libc.so.6:
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.3) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
> The GLIBC libraries are version 2.7 on barbrady:
>
> ll /lib/libc.so.6 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11
> 2008-04-08 07:12 /lib/libc.so.6 ->
> libc-2.7.so*
> ll /lib/ld-linux.so.2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2008-04-08 07:12
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 ->
> ld-2.7.so*
> [
>
> Machine 2:
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
>
> Version information:
> /export/dev/compiler/2.95.2/sparc-elf/sparc-elf/bin/as:
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1.3) => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> libc.so.6 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> /lib/i686/libc.so.6:
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.1) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_2.0) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> ld-linux.so.2 (GLIBC_PRIVATE) => /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
> The GLIBC libraries are version 2.2.93 on machine 2:
>
> ll /lib/i686/libc.so.6
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Oct 28
> 2003 /lib/i686/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.93.so*
>
> ll /lib/i686/ld-linux.so.2
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Jan 14
> 2004 /lib/ld-linux.so.2 -> ./ld-2.2.93.so*
>
>
> Script to run assembler on machine 1 with machine 2's /lib mounted.
>
>
> #! /bin/tcsh
> setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /var/tmp/machine2/lib echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> /var/tmp/machine2/lib/ld-linux.so.2
> /export/dev/compiler/2.95.2/sparc-elf/sparc-elf/bin/as -a -V -Qy -s -o
> navigapp_machine2libs.o navigapp.s > navigapp_machine2libs.l
>
>
> if you diff the binary files you get differences like this
>
> Bad file:
> 0066420 7453 6572 6d61 6e69 4167 7373 7465 0000
Note vv
> 0066440 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066460 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066500 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066520 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066540 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066560 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066600 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066620 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066640 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066660 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066700 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066720 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066740 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0066760 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0067000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0067020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0067040 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0067060 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
>
> Good file:
>
> 0066420 7453 6572 6d61 6e69 4167 7373 7465 0000
vv
> 0066440 0000 3c00 0000 071a 0000 0000 0000 5800
> 0066460 0000 071b 0000 0000 0000 7000 0000 0906
> 0066500 0000 3001 0000 7400 0000 0c06 0000 3001
> 0066520 0000 7800 0000 071c 0000 0000 0000 b800
> 0066540 0000 0906 0000 a801 0000 c400 0000 071d
> 0066560 0000 0000 0000 d400 0000 071e 0000 0000
> 0066600 0000 d800 0000 0c06 0000 a801 0000 e400
> 0066620 0000 091f 0000 0000 0000 e800 0000 0c1f
> 0066640 0000 0000 0000 f000 0000 0720 0000 0000
> 0066660 0000 3401 0000 091f 0000 0000 0000 3801
> 0066700 0000 0906 0000 9801 0000 3c01 0000 0c1f
> 0066720 0000 0000 0000 4001 0000 0c06 0000 9801
> 0066740 0000 4401 0000 0721 0000 0000 0000 5801
> 0066760 0000 0c1f 0000 0000 0000 6401 0000 0720
> 0067000 0000 0000 0000 9001 0000 0906 0000 3001
> 0067020 0000 9401 0000 0c06 0000 3001 0000 9c01
> 0067040 0000 0c06 0000 3001 0000 3802 0000 071d
>
>
It looks like your format is hex. The lead in is streamingAsset
followed by two null sequences (32bits each).
Since the lead in is correct in both places I would suspect that you
have an uninitialized variable. check your compiler flags and see what
has changed between the two GCC versions.
Regards,
Les H
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