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Author SHA1 Message Date
Michael Brown 916ebef198 [build] Allow __asmcall to be used as a type attribute
The "used" attribute can be applied only to functions or variables,
which prevents the use of __asmcall as a type attribute.

Fix by removing "used" from the definition of __asmcall for i386 and
x86_64 architectures, and adding explicit __used annotations where
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2021-03-02 10:15:23 +00:00
Michael Brown 00c5b958c5 [legal] Add missing FILE_LICENCE declarations
Add missing FILE_LICENCE declarations to x86_64 headers based on the
corresponding i386 headers (from which the x86_64 headers were
originally derived).

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2017-12-29 11:57:00 +00:00
Michael Brown 31b5c2e753 [librm] Provide an abstraction wrapper for prot_call
Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2016-02-18 23:23:38 +00:00
Michael Brown fbc4ba4b4e [build] Fix the REQUIRE_SYMBOL mechanism
At some point in the past few years, binutils became more aggressive
at removing unused symbols.  To function as a symbol requirement, a
relocation record must now be in a section marked with @progbits and
must not be in a section which gets discarded during the link (either
via --gc-sections or via /DISCARD/).

Update REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to generate relocation records meeting these
criteria.  To minimise the impact upon the final binary size, we use
existing symbols (specified via the REQUIRING_SYMBOL() macro) as the
relocation targets where possible.  We use R_386_NONE or R_X86_64_NONE
relocation types to prevent any actual unwanted relocation taking
place.  Where no suitable symbol exists for REQUIRING_SYMBOL() (such
as in config.c), the macro PROVIDE_REQUIRING_SYMBOL() can be used to
generate a one-byte-long symbol to act as the relocation target.

If there are versions of binutils for which this approach fails, then
the fallback will probably involve killing off REQUEST_SYMBOL(),
redefining REQUIRE_SYMBOL() to use the current definition of
REQUEST_SYMBOL(), and postprocessing the linked ELF file with
something along the lines of "nm -u | wc -l" to check that there are
no undefined symbols remaining.

Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
2015-03-05 00:59:38 +00:00
Michael Brown ce0a0ccf5c [x86_64] Add support for compilation as an x86_64 binary
Currently the only supported platform for x86_64 is EFI.

Building an EFI64 gPXE requires a version of gcc that supports
__attribute__((ms_abi)).  This currently means a development build of
gcc; the feature should be present when gcc 4.4 is released.

In the meantime; you can grab a suitable gcc tree from

  git://git.etherboot.org/scm/people/mcb30/gcc/.git
2008-12-05 00:06:27 +00:00