That does the trick.
Thanks,
steve
-Original Message-
From: Ian Lance Taylor [mailto:i...@google.com]
Sent: 21 August 2010 19:50
To: Kilbane, Stephen
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: CLEAR_INSN_CACHE
"Kilbane, Stephen" writes:
> I'm trying to add support to 4.3 for cache flushing when setting up a
> trampoline.
> Reading around, it looks like I should be defining CLEAR_INSN_CACHE:
>
> To clear the instruction cache when a trampoline is initialized, define the
> following macro.
>CLEAR_INSN_CACHE (beg, end)
>
> but I can't see anywhere that this macro gets used during trampoline
> creation. I can see
> that it provides an implementation for __clear_cache() in libgcc, but nothing
> that would
> invoke that routine, either, short of an explicit call in the source file
> being compiled.
>
> Am I missing something?
No. You do need to arrange to flush the cache yourself, typically by
generating the appropriate instructions in the TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_INIT
target hook. On targets which need to clear the cache, that hook will
often emit a call to __clear_cache, as in
emit_library_call (gen_rtx_SYMBOL_REF (Pmode, "__clear_cache"),
LCT_NORMAL, VOIDmode, 2, a_tramp, Pmode,
plus_constant (a_tramp, TRAMPOLINE_SIZE), Pmode);
where a_tramp is the address of the trampoline. The CLEAR_INSN_CACHE
macro will then provide the body of the __clear_cache function. Of
course, if clearing the cache is reasonably simple, the instructions can
be emitted inline by TARGET_TRAMPOLINE_INIT; e.g., that's what the MIPS
target does.
Ian
