[Buildroot] [PATCH] toolchain-wrapper: use -ffp-contract=off on MIPS Xburst for gcc >= 4.6
Thomas Petazzoni
thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com
Sun Apr 1 14:23:57 UTC 2018
Hello,
On Sat, 31 Mar 2018 19:54:20 +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> From: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>
>
> Since gcc 4.6, GCC deprecated -mfused-madd, -ffp-contract=off should
> be used for the Xburst workaround.
>
> Tested with the MIPS Sourcery 2011.03 toolchain (based on gcc 4.5),
> the toolchain wrapper uses -mno-fused-madd, as expected:
>
> $ BR2_DEBUG_WRAPPER=2 ./output/host/bin/mips-linux-gnu-gcc -o toto toto.c
> Toolchain wrapper executing:
> '/home/thomas/toolchains/mips-2011.03/bin/mips-linux-gnu-gcc'
> '--sysroot'
> '/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/mipsel-buildroot-linux-gnu/sysroot'
> '-mabi=32'
> '-msoft-float'
> '-mno-fused-madd'
> '-EL'
> '-march=mips32r2'
> '-o'
> 'toto'
> 'toto.c'
>
> And with the MIPS Sourcery 2012.09 toolchain (based on gcc 4.7), the
> toolchain wrapper uses -ffp-contract=off, as expected:
>
> $ BR2_DEBUG_WRAPPER=2 ./output/host/bin/mips-linux-gnu-gcc -o toto toto.c
> Toolchain wrapper executing:
> '/home/thomas/toolchains/mips-2012.09/bin/mips-linux-gnu-gcc'
> '--sysroot'
> '/home/thomas/projets/buildroot/output/host/mipsel-buildroot-linux-gnu/sysroot'
> '-mabi=32'
> '-msoft-float'
> '-ffp-contract=off'
> '-EL'
> '-march=mips32r2'
> '-o'
> 'toto'
> 'toto.c'
>
> Fixes the ci20_defconfig build:
>
> https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/jobs/60303132
>
> Signed-off-by: Waldemar Brodkorb <wbx at openadk.org>
> [Thomas: rework to continue supporting pre-gcc-4.6 toolchains, extend
> the commit log after doing more testing.]
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
> ---
> toolchain/toolchain-wrapper.c | 3 +++
> toolchain/toolchain-wrapper.mk | 6 ++++++
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
Applied to master, thanks.
Thomas
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