Re: binutils 2.14.91 failed to build recent glibc for mips-linux

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo at mba dot ocn dot ne dot jp>]

>>>>> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:06:06 +0200 (CEST), "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl> said:
>> The _RTLD_PROLOGUE macro contains ".ent" and the _RTLD_EPILOGUE
>> macro contains ".end".  So there are nested .ent/.end pairs.

macro>  Perhaps there are not.  Can you disclose the .s file?

OK, here is a part of .s file generated by mips-linux-gcc -S.
Definitely there are.

I'm using glibc source in Debian testing package (based on glibc
2003-09-20 CVS).

#APP
	.text
.globl	__start
	.ent	__start
	.type	__start, @function
__start:
		.set noreorder; move $25, $31; bal 10f; nop; 10: .cpload $31; move $31, $25; .set reorder
	
	# i386 ABI book says that the first entry of GOT holds
	# the address of the dynamic structure. Though MIPS ABI
	# doesn't say nothing about this, I emulate this here.
	la $4, _DYNAMIC
	# Subtract OFFSET_GP_GOT
	sw $4, -0x7ff0($28)
	move $4, $29
	subu $29, 16
	
	la $8, .Lcoff
	bltzal $8, .Lcoff
.Lcoff:	subu $8, $31, $8
	
	la $25, _dl_start
	addu $25, $8
	jalr $25
	
	addiu $29, 16
	# Get the value of label '_dl_start_user' in t9 ($25).
	la $25, _dl_start_user
	.globl _dl_start_user
	.type _dl_start_user,@function
	.ent _dl_start_user
_dl_start_user:
	.set noreorder; .cpload $25; .set reorder
	
	move $16, $28
	# Save the user entry point address in a saved register.
	move $17, $2
	# Store the highest stack address
	sw $29, __libc_stack_end
	# See if we were run as a command with the executable file
	# name as an extra leading argument.
	lw $2, _dl_skip_args
	beq $2, $0, 1f
	# Load the original argument count.
	lw $4, 0($29)
	# Subtract _dl_skip_args from it.
	subu $4, $2
	# Adjust the stack pointer to skip _dl_skip_args words.
	sll $2, 2
	addu $29, $2
	# Save back the modified argument count.
	sw $4, 0($29)
1:	# Call _dl_init (struct link_map *main_map, int argc, char **argv, char **env) 
	lw $4, _rtld_local
	lw $5, 0($29)
	la $6, 4($29)
	sll $7, $5, 2
	addu $7, $7, $6
	addu $7, $7, 4 
	subu $29, 32
	.cprestore 16
	# Call the function to run the initializers.
	jal _dl_init_internal
	addiu $29, 32
	# Pass our finalizer function to the user in $2 as per ELF ABI.
	la $2, _dl_fini
	# Jump to the user entry point.
	move $25, $17
	jr $25
	.end _dl_start_user
	.end	__start
	.size	__start, . - __start
	.previous
#NO_APP

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Atsushi Nemoto