[PATCH] winebuild: Fix relay entry points in Thumb mode with binutils/ELF and LLVM/PE

Martin Storsjö martin at martin.st
Wed Nov 3 07:41:36 CDT 2021


b1fe783adee51b5c3d3c0dc58e5dc1e81fd46299 fixed relay entry points
in Thumb mode when assembled with Clang/LLVM in ELF mode, but broke
them when assembled with binutils as (and PE mode with LLVM didn't
work either before or after).

When/where the thumb bit is applied on symbols varies a lot between
assemblers; this is a notoriously vague and undocumented area.

After a .thumb_func directive, binutils as considers the next
non-local symbol as a thumb symbol, to have the thumb bit set.
LLVM's built-in assembler considers the next symbol, local or not,
to be a thumb symbol. (Just noting for reference for possible
solutions, this particular difference didn't play a role so far.)

Secondly, in a symbol difference expression like this:

    .long symbol1 - symbol2

Binutils as ignores the potential thumb state for both symbols and
just calculates the raw distance. LLVM does include the thumb bit
in symbol1 but ignores it in symbol2.

Finally, for PE targets, the linker sets the thumb bit on all
absolute addresses pointing to the text section, regardless of any
.thumb_func directives at assembly time. (I.e., the
__wine_spec_relay_entry_points entry in .L__wine_spec_relay_descr
gets the bit set even if it wasn't marked as .thumb_func.)

Therefore, mark __wine_spec_relay_entry_points as .thumb_func, as
the absolute address to it will end up with the thumb bit set in
PE builds in any case.

Don't mark the individual relay entry pointers as thumb functions
(the code still is generated as thumb as there hasn't been any
mode switch back to arm mode); this makes the differences calculated
correctly (both LLVM and binutils ignore the thumb state of the
subtracted label).

If desired, one could change __wine_spec_relay_entry_point_%d into
local labels with a .L prefix, just as before
b1fe783adee51b5c3d3c0dc58e5dc1e81fd46299 again, it doesn't make
any difference in this form.

Signed-off-by: Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st>
---
 tools/winebuild/spec32.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/winebuild/spec32.c b/tools/winebuild/spec32.c
index 513778ad10c..36df296b9c1 100644
--- a/tools/winebuild/spec32.c
+++ b/tools/winebuild/spec32.c
@@ -248,6 +248,7 @@ static void output_relay_debug( DLLSPEC *spec )
     /* then the relay thunks */
 
     output( "\t.text\n" );
+    if (thumb_mode) output( "\t.thumb_func\n" );
     output( "__wine_spec_relay_entry_points:\n" );
     output( "\tnop\n" );  /* to avoid 0 offset */
 
@@ -303,7 +304,6 @@ static void output_relay_debug( DLLSPEC *spec )
                     has_float = is_float_arg( odp, j );
 
             output( "\t.align %d\n", get_alignment(4) );
-            if (thumb_mode) output( "\t.thumb_func\n" );
             output( "__wine_spec_relay_entry_point_%d:\n", i );
             output_cfi( ".cfi_startproc" );
             output( "\tpush {r0-r3}\n" );
-- 
2.25.1




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