Re: [PATCH v2] MIPS: Only use current_stack_pointer on GCC

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:44 PM David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Kees Cook
> > Sent: 09 March 2022 22:10
> >
> > Unfortunately, Clang did not have support for "sp" as a global register
> > definition, and was crashing after the addition of current_stack_pointer.
> > This has been fixed in Clang 15, but earlier Clang versions need to
>                                ^^ 14

Yeah, with that fixed:
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

Once clang-14 is the minimally supported version, we can go back to
removing the inline asm for everyone.


> > avoid this code, so add a versioned test and revert back to the
> > open-coded asm instances. Fixes Clang build error:
> >
> > fatal error: error in backend: Invalid register name global variable
>
>         David
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~Nick Desaulniers