gcc 4.7 introduced the sync_8 builtin functions for ARM. For ARM < v7,
this requires calling into the kernel. However, the failure path of
that call reports an error with the __write() function, which is a
glibc internal function. Therefore, it fails to link with uClibc or
musl. This was fixed in gcc 5.2.0, by replacing the __write() with
a plain write().
For sync_8 itself we have solved this with the conditions on
BR2_TOOLCHAIN_ARM_HAS_SYNC_8. However, the same function is also used
for the implementation of atomics.
For the internal toolchain, we can fix this by backporting the patch
to 4.9.4 and 4.8.5.
Fixes:
http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/
1db64b4830f499621e44523e0ef68191505e2ce9
Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
--- /dev/null
+From edb9057c195c41dd7bcd8603e5fd420359edd520 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: nsz <nsz@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
+Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:17:55 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] [ARM] PR target/68059 libgcc should not use __write for
+ printing fatal error
+
+libgcc/
+ PR target/68059
+ * config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c (__write): Rename to...
+ (write): ...this and fix the return type.
+
+git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@230762 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
+
+Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
+---
+ libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c b/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
+index 7aa8dfc..570b4ce 100644
+--- a/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
++++ b/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see
+ kernels; we check for that in an init section and bail out rather
+ unceremoneously. */
+
+-extern unsigned int __write (int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count);
++extern int write (int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count);
+ extern void abort (void);
+
+ /* Kernel helper for compare-and-exchange. */
+@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void __check_for_sync8_kernelhelper (void)
+ for the user - I'm not sure I can rely on much else being
+ available at this point, so do the same as generic-morestack.c
+ write () and abort (). */
+- __write (2 /* stderr. */, err, sizeof (err));
++ write (2 /* stderr. */, err, sizeof (err));
+ abort ();
+ }
+ };
+--
+2.10.2
+
--- /dev/null
+From 80bc14a5249da7054b716229206b453f339b4a5e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: nsz <nsz@138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4>
+Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 15:17:55 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] [ARM] PR target/68059 libgcc should not use __write for
+ printing fatal error
+
+libgcc/
+ PR target/68059
+ * config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c (__write): Rename to...
+ (write): ...this and fix the return type.
+
+git-svn-id: svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk@230762 138bc75d-0d04-0410-961f-82ee72b054a4
+
+Signed-off-by: Arnout Vandecappelle (Essensium/Mind) <arnout@mind.be>
+---
+ libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c | 4 ++--
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c b/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
+index 5b8c6e2..9078673 100644
+--- a/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
++++ b/libgcc/config/arm/linux-atomic-64bit.c
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ see the files COPYING3 and COPYING.RUNTIME respectively. If not, see
+ kernels; we check for that in an init section and bail out rather
+ unceremoneously. */
+
+-extern unsigned int __write (int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count);
++extern int write (int fd, const void *buf, unsigned int count);
+ extern void abort (void);
+
+ /* Kernel helper for compare-and-exchange. */
+@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void __check_for_sync8_kernelhelper (void)
+ for the user - I'm not sure I can rely on much else being
+ available at this point, so do the same as generic-morestack.c
+ write () and abort (). */
+- __write (2 /* stderr. */, err, sizeof (err));
++ write (2 /* stderr. */, err, sizeof (err));
+ abort ();
+ }
+ };
+--
+2.10.2
+