[llvm-dev] Cross-compiling for ARM Cortex-M3 on x86

[Tim Northover via llvm-dev]

Hi,

On 12 March 2018 at 15:06, Son Tuan VU via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> But libc code is in ARM mode:

That's very bad, because Cortex-M doesn't support ARM mode. I think
your libc is broken.

> As you can see, the call to srand is just a bl (Branch with Link), not a blx
> (Branch with Link and Exchange instruction set), so I think something is
> going wrong here.

Yes, Cortex-M has no blx instruction.

> Can anyone kindly give me some pointers on how to debug this? Or at least
> tell me whether this is a bug?

You don't mention how you build libc, but that's what you need to fix.

> I am a bit lost now, I've tried to look up
> for more information on this but cannot find out why Clang doesn't generate
> Thumb code for libc functions.

It'll be part of your libc's build system (Makefile?). Clang should
simply refuse to produce ARM mode code if it knows it's targeting
Cortex-M, so my guess is no -mcpu option is being specified. There
might be subtle differences in how GCC has been compiled that means
your version defaults to Thumb mode anyway, but Clang doesn't.

Cheers.

Tim.