I got many "Reserved Instruction" exceptions with gcc 4.1 + glibc 2.4 userland. They were due to RDHWR instruction to support TLS. If a system call returned an error, glibc must save the result to errno, which is thread-local, so RDHWR used. I can understand this scenario. But it seems the RDHWR is often called on non-error cases. For example, in the code below, RDHWR is placed _before_ checking the error. I suppose these instructions were reordered by gcc's optimization, but the optimization would have large negative effect in this case. 00566fc4 <_IO_file_read>: 566fc4: 3c1c0016 lui gp,0x16 566fc8: 279c87ac addiu gp,gp,-30804 566fcc: 0399e021 addu gp,gp,t9 566fd0: 8c82003c lw v0,60(a0) 566fd4: 30420002 andi v0,v0,0x2 566fd8: 14400003 bnez v0,566fe8 <_IO_file_read+0x24> 566fdc: 8f999e9c lw t9,-24932(gp) 566fe0: 03200008 jr t9 566fe4: 8c840038 lw a0,56(a0) 566fe8: 8c840038 lw a0,56(a0) 566fec: 24020fa3 li v0,4003 566ff0: 0000000c syscall 566ff4: 8f84a528 lw a0,-23256(gp) 566ff8: 7c03e83b rdhwr v1,$29 566ffc: 00832021 addu a0,a0,v1 567000: 14e00003 bnez a3,567010 <_IO_file_read+0x4c> 567004: 00401821 move v1,v0 567008: 03e00008 jr ra 56700c: 00601021 move v0,v1 567010: 2403ffff li v1,-1 567014: 1000fffc b 567008 <_IO_file_read+0x44> 567018: ac820000 sw v0,0(a0) I'm not sure where to fix, but I doubt some inline asm code in glibc lack "volatile" keyword. Does anyone have a clue on this? --- Atsushi Nemoto
