Re: [Gems-users] Compiling problems with transaction.c in Gems 2.0

[Luke Yen <lyen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Can you try using the assembler located in /usr/ccs/bin/as
  and recompile gcc with these flags:  --with-as=/usr/ccs/bin/as
                                       --without-gnu-as

  Luke

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Rubén Titos wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I've just set up my gems-2.0 environment and I'm trying to compile the
> transactional microbenchmarks included in the new release. After having the
> files inside my simulated simics machine (a sarek US-III+ with Solaris 10),
> my problem is that I can't build any benchmark (nor any other workload)
> since, according to the assembler, there's an error in the code generated
> when compiling the file
> $GEMS/microbenchmarks/transactional/common/transaction.c. I've compiled it
> in two steps to see the assembler code, and to my surprise, the assembler
> finds an "Illegal operand" error in an empty line. Here is the output I got
> inside my sarek/sol10 simics machine, and some lines from transaction.s:
>
>
> bash-3.00# cd btree/
> bash-3.00# gmake
> /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -c -O3 -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -DSIMICS -I../common btree_c.c
> -DNODE_NUM_PAIRS=9 -DNUM_POOLS=1
> /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -c -O3 -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -DSIMICS -I../common
> btree_c_util.c -DNODE_NUM_PAIRS=9 -DNUM_POOLS=1
> /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -c -O3 -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -DSIMICS -I../common -o
> transaction.o ../common/transaction.c
> /var/tmp//ccP5j6V5.s: Assembler messages:
> /var/tmp//ccP5j6V5.s:1121: Error: Illegal operands
> gmake: *** [transaction.o] Error 1
> bash-3.00# /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -S -O3 -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -DSIMICS -I../common
> -o transaction.s ../common/transaction.c
> bash-3.00# /usr/sfw/bin/gcc -O3 -Wa,-xarch=v8plusa -DSIMICS -I../common -o
> transaction.o ../common/transaction.s
> ../common/transaction.s: Assembler messages:
> ../common/transaction.s:1121: Error: Illegal operands
> bash-3.00# nl ../common/transaction.s
> [...]
>  1110          be      .LL243
>  1111          mov     0, %i0
>  1112          sethi 7, %g0  !magic service 7
>  1113
>  1114          sethi 11, %g0  !magic service 11
>  1115
>  1116          b,a     .LL241
>  1117  .LL243:
>  1118          sethi 7, %g0  !magic service 7
>  1119
>  1120          sethi 28, %g0  !magic service 28
>  1121
>  1122  .LL241:
>  1123          ret
>  1124          restore
>  1125          .size   transaction_manager_stub, .-transaction_manager_stub
>  1126          .align 4
>  1127          .global touch_log
>  1128          .type   touch_log, #function
>  1129          .proc   020
>  1130  touch_log:
>
> I'm using Solaris 10 "out-of-the-box", and gcc/gas included in /usr/sfw.
>
> bash-3.00# gcc -v
> Reading specs from /usr/sfw/lib/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/3.4.3/specs
> Configured with:
> /gates/sfw10/builds/sfw10-gate/usr/src/cmd/gcc/gcc-3.4.3/configure
> --prefix=/usr/sfw --with-as=/usr/sfw/bin/gas --with-gnu-as
> --with-ld=/usr/ccs/bin/ld --without-gnu-ld --enable-languages=c,c++
> --enable-shared
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.4.3 (csl-sol210-3_4-branch+sol_rpath)
>
> Anybody knows what's going on? Could it be a bug in the inline assembly code
> of transaction.c?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Ruben
>
> --
> Ruben Titos
> Parallel Computing and Architecture Group (GACOP)
> Computer Engineering Dept.
> University of Murcia