Charles / Jim,

Removing --with-mode=thumb from the ABE gcc.conf does indeed solve my problem.  
Thank you!  I went ahead and opened a ticket.

Best,

Bill Davis

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 6:24 PM
To: Bill Davis
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Building for armv6/ARM1136J-S using ABE

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:54 AM, Bill Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> I’ve tried probably a dozen different ABE build command lines with various
> combinations of cpu/arch/tune on the latest  tree and on the 2014.09 release
> and am unable to build for the armv6/1136J-S.

FYI there is a wiki page that talks about ABE
   https://wiki.linaro.org/ABE
In particular, it mentions the "temporary" workaround needed to get
files to download.

My experience is that ABE tends to work fine if you are using the same
way as tcwg, and it can behave poorly if you are trying to use it a
different way.  tcwg doesn't build for armv6.

> /tmp/ccTT8UgL.s:492: Error: lo register required -- `add
> pc,r3,#(0xffff0fc0-0xffff0fff)'
> /tmp/ccTT8UgL.s:490: Error: invalid immediate: -61441 is out of range

This is a glibc problem building csu/libc-start.c.  It calls some
atomic functions, and we end up in
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/bits/atomic.h.  At the bottom, it has a
definition for __arm_assisted_compare_and_exchange_val_32_acq.  There
is one for thumb2, and one for arm, but no definition for thumb1.

abe by default builds the compiler --with-mode=thumb.  You are
building for an armv6 part that does not have thumb2 support, so your
compiler is emitting thumb1 code by default, which won't work.  I
don't think it is a good idea to try to build everything as thumb1
code.  I would suggest disabling --with-mode=thumb in the gcc
configure options.

I see that Charles Baylis has responded while I was writing this up,
and explains that you have to edit abe/config/gcc.conf to git rid of
the --with-mode=thumb option.

Jim
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