[LLVMdev] clang .code16 with -Os producing larger code that it needs to
David Woodhouse
dwmw2 at infradead.org
Fri Feb 20 07:38:05 PST 2015
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 15:58 +0100, Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
wrote:
> When experimenting with compiling GRUB2 with clang using integrated as,
> I found out that it generates a 16-bit code bigger than gas counterpart
> and result gets too big for size constraints of bootsector. This was
> traced mainly to 2 problems.
...
> 32-bit access to 16-bit addresses.
> clang:
> 7cbc: 67 66 8b 1d 5c 7c 00 00 addr32 mov 0x7c5c,%ebx
> gas:
> 7cbc: 66 8b 1e 5c 7c mov 0x7c5c,%ebx
> 32-bit jump.
> clang:
> + 7cb5: 66 0f 83 07 01 00 00 jae 7dc3 <L_floppy_probe>
> gas:
> - 7cb5: 0f 83 0a 01 jae 7dc3 <L_floppy_probe>
To a large extent, those are the *same* problem. We don't know that it's
eventually going to fit into a 16-bit offset, so we emit it with a fixup
record which can cope with 32 bits.
Arguably, the jump is *particularly* gratuitous in many cases... but in
'big real' mode is the IP *really* limited to 16 bits?
We could make it default to 16-bit, as gas does. But then we'd be
screwed in the cases where we really *do* need 32-bit.
What we actually need to do is implement handling for the explicit
addr32 prefix. Then we can do what gas does and default to 16-bit but
*also* have a way to do 32-bit when it's needed.
--
dwmw2
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