On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:28:46 CDT, jtlillev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I have installed the GCC toolset for the ARM processor and have tried test
> compiling a few files. One of the files uses the debug co-processor port
> (CP14) assembly instructions and I am having difficulty getting the syntax
> correct for use with the GCC ARM Assembler. The line of code is:
>
> __asm ("MRC p14, 0, status, c0, c1, 0");
>
> This is just a slightly modified syntax from what works with the ARM RVDS
> toolset (these files are examples from ARM). The assembler error is that
> it expects an ARM register to be specified in the command. I'm assuming
> that it is complaining about "c0" and "c1" which are registers associated
> with the debug port. The target processor is the 1136JF-S but I have not
> been able to find a register definition file for it anywhere. Even if I
> did, I'm not sure that the assembler would know anything about it when
> parsing this command. I would appreciate any help you can provide.
You'll need to read the gcc manual to see how to invoke the gnu inline
assembler. In particular, unlike armcc, you can't just substitute in your
source code variables. Instead you need to describe the type of register
that is used and the variable that it needs to contain.
R.
