Re: [PATCH] arm64: LLVMLinux: Provide __aeabi_* symbols which are needed for clang

[Behan Webster]

On 09/06/14 07:16, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 05 September 2014 16:23:14 behanw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/arch/arm64/lib/eabi.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
> > +/*
> > + *  linux/lib/eabi.c
> Please don't put the file names in the files themselves, it's redundant
> and in this case actually wrong.
Will fix.

> > + *  Copyright (C) 2012  Mark Charlebois
> > + */
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * EABI routines
> Does EABI specify these function names? I would think that they are
> just random libgcc (whatever that is called in clang) functions.
These specialized functions are part of the ABI for the ARM architecture 
(AEABI). They aren't random.

Memcpy and memmove *could* might be satisfied with linker magic instead. 
But memset uses the reverse parameter list.

Behan

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