xtensa-uclinux uses bFLT executable file format that cannot relocate fields representing offsets from data to code. C++ objects built as PIC use offsets to encode FDE structures. As a result C++ exception handling doesn't work correctly on xtensa-uclinux. Don't use PIC by default on xtensa-uclinux.
gcc/ 2018-11-04 Max Filippov <jcmvb...@gmail.com> * config/xtensa/uclinux.h (XTENSA_ALWAYS_PIC): Change to 0. --- Changes v1->v2: - fix up comment for the XTENSA_ALWAYS_PIC macro gcc/config/xtensa/uclinux.h | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/config/xtensa/uclinux.h b/gcc/config/xtensa/uclinux.h index ba26187c8f7a..c7743df9d97c 100644 --- a/gcc/config/xtensa/uclinux.h +++ b/gcc/config/xtensa/uclinux.h @@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ along with GCC; see the file COPYING3. If not see #undef LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX #define LOCAL_LABEL_PREFIX "." -/* Always enable "-fpic" for Xtensa Linux. */ -#define XTENSA_ALWAYS_PIC 1 +/* Don't enable "-fpic" for Xtensa uclinux. */ +#define XTENSA_ALWAYS_PIC 0 #undef TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FUNCTION #define TARGET_LIBC_HAS_FUNCTION no_c99_libc_has_function -- 2.11.0