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Date:      Fri, 21 Aug 2020 14:54:35 +0400
From:      Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org>
Cc:        toolchain@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Undefined reference to __bswapsi2/__bswapdi2
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:53 PM Dimitry Andric <dim@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 20 Aug 2020, at 19:52, Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 10:15 PM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi toolchain@
> >>
> >> I'm building the latest GHC on 12.1-RELEASE i386 and having almost the
> >> same problem as with atomic functions. This time the error is
> >>
> >> d: error: undefined symbol: __bswapsi2
> >>>>> referenced by TTY.c
> >>>>>              RTS.thr_p_o:(rtsSyms) in archive
> >>
> /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/ghc/work/ghc-8.10.2/rts/dist/build/libHSrts_thr_p.a
> >>
> >> ld: error: undefined symbol: __bswapdi2
> >>>>> referenced by TTY.c
> >>>>>              RTS.thr_p_o:(rtsSyms) in archive
> >>
> /wrkdirs/usr/ports/lang/ghc/work/ghc-8.10.2/rts/dist/build/libHSrts_thr_p.a
> >>
> >> What's wrong with that? These functions seem to be present in our
> >> compiler-rt.
> >>
> >
> > Reading /usr/src/lib/libcompiler_rt/Makefile.inc, it seems that we don't
> > compile these functions. What's the reason for this?
>
> I'm not aware of any particular reason, except that nobody seems to have
> run into this omission before. It looks like on x86, compilers usually
> just emit bswap instructions instead of libcalls for these situations.
>
> Apparently we have historically only added bswapdi and bswapsi for arm,
> mips and riscv.
>
> -Dimitry
>
>
I see thanks. I worked my problem around by adding implementations of these
functions right into GHC code.



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