[FreeVMS] L4Ka. Regression with 4.7 and 4.8 ?

[BERTRAND Joël]

Oleg Endo a écrit :
> On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 14:32 +0200, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
>> 	Hello,
>>
>> 	I have bissected the code and found the faulty .o. I have attached
>> assembly output. idt.gcc46.s is the good one. If L4 is linked with
>> idt.gcc.47.s, it only reboots.
>
> The code of 4.6 and 4.7 seems to be pretty much the same, except for
> differences in the register allocations.
> (I removed all .cfi lines before doing a diff)
>
> However, maybe the following difference ...
>
> 4.6:
> 	.section	.ctors.10003,"aw", at progbits
> 	.align 8
> 	.quad	_GLOBAL__sub_I.55532_idt
> 	...
>
> 4.7:
> 	.section	.init_array.55532,"aw"
> 	.align 8
> 	.quad	_GLOBAL__sub_I.55532_idt
>
> (different sections being used)
>
> ... triggers another problem somewhere else?  Maybe .init_array is not
> handled by the startup code or something like that?  I'm just
> guessing...

	Maybe. But if I build all but idt.c with gcc 4.7 and only idt.c with 
gcc 4.6, I obtain a running kernel.

	Regards,

	JKB