Changeset d44e001 in buchla-68k


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Timestamp:
07/29/2017 11:05:41 PM (7 years ago)
Author:
Thomas Lopatic <thomas@…>
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Explain pitfalls.

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    209209repository. Just in case you are interested in them, but would prefer
    210210not to go through the emulator exercise.
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     213Pitfalls
     214--------
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     216There are a few differences between the Alcyon compiler and a
     217modern-day GCC cross-compiler for the Motorola 68k.
     218
     219  * Alcyon uses 16-bit integers, whereas GCC defaults to 32-bit
     220    integers. That's why we pass the -mshort option to GCC.
     221
     222  * The Alcyon compiler's ABI assumes that registers A2 and D2 are
     223    saved by the caller of a function, if needed. GCC, however,
     224    assumes that it's the called function that is responsible for
     225    preserving A2 and D2.
     226
     227    Right now, we work around this issue by passing the -ffixed-d2 and
     228    -ffixed-a2 options to GCC. This prevents GCC from using these two
     229    registers at all when generating code.
     230
     231    Ultimately, we should fix the hand-written assembly language
     232    functions to preserve A2 and D2, so that GCC code generation can
     233    use all registers.
     234
     235  * The hand-written assembly language code expects C function names
     236    to be prefixed with an underscore. That's why we pass the
     237    -fleading-underscore option to GCC. However, this breaks linking
     238    with libgcc, which doesn't use leading underscores.
     239
     240    Currently, we work around this issue by stripping the leading
     241    underscore from references to libgcc functions using objcopy. See
     242    misc/rewrite.txt for the function name mapping.
     243
     244    Ultimately, we should fix any references to C functions in the
     245    hand-written assembly language code.
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