Good call. Thanks everyone, that did it. now if i could just get my cross compiled gcc 3.1 to realize that crti.o exists and should be linked in with libgcc... George werkt@csh.rit.edu On Tue, 22 May 2001, Florian Lohoff wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 04:23:52PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > > The patch seems to be just a fast implementation of sysmips(). Why would it > > solve an otherwise illegal instruction problem? > > > > George, what was exactly the error and the faulty instruction? > > Wrong - Its not only a "fast" path sysmips. It solves the illegal instruction > case as it carefully doesnt touch registers it should not touch. > > The sysmips illegal instruction stuff came from the early exit > needed to skip the -EXXXX case in the scall32.S which did not > restore the modified registers. This needed fixing and there was > no clean way of doing this in C thus i wrote an asm sysmips/MIPS_ATOMIC_SET > and called it "fast_sysmips" which itself would go into the old > sysmips function when not MIPS_ATOMIC_SET. > > Flo >
