[fpc-devel] ARM Illegal instruction debugging howto

[ik]

The program now execute but does not do anything:

program hello;

begin
  writeln('Hello World');
end.

it does not print anything on the screen.

strace only uses execv as the single executing line.

What am I missing here ?

Ido

http://ik.homelinux.org/


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:

> ‎Thanks Jonas,
>
> I'll try it this evening and see if it works.
>
>
> Ido
>
> http://ik.homelinux.org/
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:09 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be>wrote:
>
>>
>> On 30 Nov 2009, at 22:22, ik wrote:
>>
>> > It uses ARM EABI version. My latest attempt provides me the following
>> > executable:
>> > ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1, statically linked, not
>> stripped
>> >
>> > While on "regular" Linux the same file identifier is:
>> > hello: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), statically
>> > linked, for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, stripped
>> >
>> > A normal executable in OM is:
>> > ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24,
>> > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
>> >
>> > So how can I look for the proper build of ppcrossarm and normal ppcarm ?
>>
>> Static or dynamic is unlikely to be related to your problems with illegal
>> instructions. The backtrace you previously posted (with the illegal opcode
>> in sysinitfpu suggests that you are not compiling an EABI compiler, because
>> that one defaults to softfloat. There's another thing I just noticed in your
>> previous mail:
>>
>> > make OPT='dFPC_ARMEL -dFPC_ABI_EABI -Xd' OS=TARGET=linux CPU_TARGET=arm
>>
>> That first parameter is missing a dash (-), it should read -dFPC_ARMEL.
>> Without that dash, you will not get an EABI compiler.
>>
>> You should also not define -dFPC_ABI_EABI yourself. The compiler will
>> define that symbol when the current target is EABI. Defining that symbol
>> while you are not compiling for an EABI platform will only result in an RTL
>> with invalid code.
>>
>>
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