ARM: gmp has no support for thumb interworking

Richard Earnshaw Richard.Earnshaw at buzzard.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Nov 15 00:46:00 CET 2006


On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:42:50 GMT, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> The hand-coded assembler functions in GMP have no support for being built 
> with interworking as required by the ARM EABI.  This makes it impossible 
> to link libgmp with any code compiled in Thumb state, and thus now 
> prevents me from testing GCC development builds by bootstrapping in Thumb 
> code.
> 
> The functions also unconditionally assume the presence of ARM architecture 
> 4.  Again this means that it is no longer possible to build a native 
> version of GCC that will run on architecture 3 or earlier parts.
> 
> R.
> 

Also note that it is not possible to force use of the generic routines, 
because the longlong.h header assumes that the assembly functions exist 
and can be called.

R.




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