[oe] [OE-core] [RFT] GCC 8.1

Andre McCurdy armccurdy at gmail.com
Thu May 10 22:40:53 UTC 2018


On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:38 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> see
> http://lists.openembedded.org/pipermail/openembedded-core/2018-May/150654.html

Removing -fno-omit-frame-pointer isn't the same as adding
-fomit-frame-pointer. Frame pointers may get enabled depending on the
optimisation level etc (ie not only by -fno-omit-frame-pointer).

> On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 12:38 AM Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:43:25PM +0200, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> >> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:27:50PM -0700, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>> >> > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 12:11 PM, Martin Jansa
>> >> > <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:50:02AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>> >> > >> Hi Martin
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> Thanks for testing and reporting back
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> On 5/9/18 2:38 AM, Martin Jansa wrote:
>> >> > >> > My initial tests show couple issues, but usually caused by other
>> >> > >> > changes
>> >> > >> > in that branch, not the gcc-8 itself.
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > 1) strace-4.22 from
>> >> > >> >
>> >> > >> > http://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core-contrib/commit/?h=kraj/gcc-8&id=af33a8b721cc9caebd3f5226b4c5903f666ab654
>> >> > >> > fails to build with ptest enabled (it builds with 4.20 version
>> >> > >> > if I
>> >> > >> > revert this change)
>> >> > >> > ../../strace-4.22/tests/inject-nf.c: In function 'main':
>> >> > >> > ../../strace-4.22/tests/inject-nf.c:86:1: error: r7 cannot be
>> >> > >> > used in
>> >> > >> > asm here
>> >> > >> >   }
>> >> > >> >   ^
>> >> > >>
>> >> > >> are you targeting thumb1 ? how can I reproduce it ?
>> >> > >
>> >> > > I'm trying to find out what's different in the builds where it was
>> >> > > failing, will provide more info later.
>> >> >
>> >> > This is probably due to making an inline syscall from Thumb (doesn't
>> >> > a
>> >> > matter Thumb1 or Thumb2) with frame pointers enabled.
>> >> >
>> >> > Does adding -fomit-frame-pointer to CFLAGS fix it?
>> >>
>> >> It was with raspberrypi3, thumb (Thumb2) enabled in DISTRO, there is
>> >> already -fno-omit-frame-pointer in the default command line for it,
>> >> adding -fomit-frame-pointer at the end fixes it:
>> >>
>> >> docker-lge @
>> >> ~/build/build-webos-master/BUILD/work/raspberrypi3-webos-linux-gnueabi/strace/4.22-r0/build/tests
>> >> $ arm-webos-linux-gnueabi-gcc  -march=armv7ve -mthumb -mfpu=neon-vfpv4
>> >> -mfloat-abi=hard -mcpu=cortex-a7
>> >> --sysroot=/OE/webos/build/build-webos-master/BUILD/work/raspberrypi3-webos-linux-gnueabi/strace/4.22-r0/recipe-sysroot
>> >> -DHAVE_CONFIG_H    -I. -I../linux/arm -I../../strace-4.22/linux/arm
>> >> -I../linux -I../../strace-4.22/linux -I.. -I../../strace-4.22
>> >> -DTESTS_SIZEOF_KERNEL_LONG_T=4 -DTESTS_SIZEOF_LONG=4  -Wall -Wempty-body
>> >> -Wformat-security -Wignored-qualifiers -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 -Winit-self
>> >> -Wlogical-op -Wmissing-parameter-type -Wnested-externs
>> >> -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition -Wsign-compare -Wtype-limits
>> >> -Wwrite-strings -O -fno-omit-frame-pointer -g -feliminate-unused-debug-types
>> >> -fdebug-prefix-map=/OE/webos/build/build-webos-master/BUILD/work/raspberrypi3-webos-linux-gnueabi/strace/4.22-r0=/usr/src/debug/strace/4.22-r0
>> >> -fdebug-prefix-map=/OE/webos/build/build-webos-master/BUILD/work/raspberrypi3-webos-linux-gnueabi/strace/4.22-r0/recipe-sysroot=
>> >> -fdebug-prefix-map=/OE/webos/build/build-webos-master/BUILD/work/raspberrypi3-webos-linux-gnueabi/strace/4.22-r0/recipe-sysroot-native=
>> >> -pipe  -c -o inject-nf.o ../../strace-4.22/tests/inject-nf.c
>> >> -fomit-frame-pointer
>> >>
>> >> This might come from:
>> >> meta/conf/bitbake.conf:DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION = "-O -fno-omit-frame-pointer
>> >> ${DEBUG_FLAGS} -pipe"
>> >> because in this build I had DEBUG_BUILD enabled.
>> >>
>> >> Will retest with 4.20 version + DEBUG_BUILD to see if it fails there as
>> >> well now.
>> >
>> > 4.20 doesn't fail with DEBUG_BUILD, because inject-nf.c test is new in
>> > 4.22:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://github.com/strace/strace/commit/58598cd7f6e23e531d71bfe5a4e35f898a4f3b2d#diff-dc01d20c1e55f8adf7536cb46d4481e1
>> >
>> > What is preferred fix for this? Is adding -fomit-frame-pointer to CFLAGS
>> > when ptest is in DISTRO_FEATURES acceptable solution?
>>
>> I would say unconditionally adding -fomit-frame-pointer to CFLAGS for
>> all builds is OK (strace is a debug tool - not something that
>> generally needs to be debugged and frame pointers aren't essential for
>> debugging anyway).



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