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Re: prom-libc test rig



On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 07:56:15PM -0700, Remco Treffkorn wrote:
> 
> In order to see what's missing, I added a 'test' target to the Makefile. That 
> would compile test.c to test.o and then link it with libc.a. Naturally _start 
> was missing, so I added crt/Crt0.c and linked that in.

this is system specific so should go in an approprate sysdeps/ directory.

> With the formalities out of the way, everything missing still, is what needs 
> to be added. Since test.c is basically "hello world", write is one of the 
> expected missing functions. The missing __progname in assert.c I added to 
> Crt0.c.

ok.

> The few things that bother me are that stdin, stdout, and stderr are missing. 
> These belong to stdio, and not in the kernel.

well there is no kernel. 

stdin/out/error need to be setup by some sort of __stdio_init() which
would be called in the __libc_start() function.  however we need
open() read() write() lseek() and close() first, thats what we are
trying to get done now.  (well i hope anyway, everyone seems to have
dissappeared). 

> Also vsnprintf wants __udivdi3 and __umoddi3. These are probably gcc support 
> functions. I don't know where they normally are, but I know how to find  out.

hmm didn't notice these.  i got the vsnprintf implementation from klibc.

> My goal is to be able to link against prom-libc as a replacement for glibc in 
> order to be able to test it.

thats been a wishlist of mine, but i doubted id ever get it to work
since im not that familier with linkage between a kernel and libc.

> Is there any merit in what I am doing, or am I wasing my time?

no this would be very useful.  implement the code in sysdeps/linux and
if there is any processor specific code put it in
sysdeps/powerpc/linux (or whatever architecture your attempting).

btw i have a start of a libc testsuite at
http://penguinppc.org/~eb/test.tar.gz so far it only tests most of
string.h stuff, but it has a fairly generic architecture for building
tests.

thanks much.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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