Tags 695547 +patch Thanks On 05/07/16 23:37, Steve McIntyre wrote: >So Peter and I were talking a little earlier on #debian-arm, Specifically we were talking about the arm tag/flag stuff. I haven't looked into the powerpc issue. Freepascal has a chunk of platform/cpu specific assembler code that is used for mixed pascal/c programs to initialise both the freepascal runtime library and libc. The powerpc linux version of this file is located at rtl/linux/powerpc/cprt0.as . It would not surprise me if it was something to do with this init code. It would be good to try and get a backtrace ("access violation" generally means that the freepascal runtime library trapped a segfault and turned it into an exception). The remainder of this mail is about the arm tag/flag stuff. > and he >was making good progress on fixing stuff. He may have stuff all done >shortly, I guess... :-) I think i've fixed the arm tag/flag stuff. With the small patch attached I get the following. readelf --file-header /usr/bin/fpc ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF32 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Type: EXEC (Executable file) Machine: ARM Version: 0x1 Entry point address: 0x100ec Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file) Start of section headers: 410616 (bytes into file) Flags: 0x5000400, Version5 EABI, hard-float ABI Size of this header: 52 (bytes) Size of program headers: 32 (bytes) Number of program headers: 4 Size of section headers: 40 (bytes) Number of section headers: 8 Section header string table index: 7 readelf -a /usr/bin/fpc ELF Header: Magic: 7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 Class: ELF32 Data: 2's complement, little endian Version: 1 (current) OS/ABI: UNIX - System V ABI Version: 0 Type: EXEC (Executable file) Machine: ARM Version: 0x1 Entry point address: 0x100ec Start of program headers: 52 (bytes into file) Start of section headers: 410616 (bytes into file) Flags: 0x5000400, Version5 EABI, hard-float ABI Size of this header: 52 (bytes) Size of program headers: 32 (bytes) Number of program headers: 4 Size of section headers: 40 (bytes) Number of section headers: 8 Section header string table index: 7 Section Headers: [Nr] Name Type Addr Off Size ES Flg Lk Inf Al [ 0] NULL 00000000 000000 000000 00 0 0 0 [ 1] .note.ABI-tag NOTE 000100c0 0000c0 000020 00 A 0 0 16 [ 2] .text PROGBITS 000100e0 0000e0 0501a4 00 AX 0 0 4 [ 3] .rodata PROGBITS 00060288 050288 010828 00 A 0 0 8 [ 4] .data PROGBITS 00081000 061000 003395 00 WA 0 0 8 [ 5] .bss NOBITS 00084398 064395 00237c 00 WA 0 0 4 [ 6] .ARM.attributes ARM_ATTRIBUTES 00000000 064395 000021 00 0 0 1 [ 7] .shstrtab STRTAB 00000000 0643b6 000042 00 0 0 1 Key to Flags: W (write), A (alloc), X (execute), M (merge), S (strings) I (info), L (link order), G (group), T (TLS), E (exclude), x (unknown) O (extra OS processing required) o (OS specific), p (processor specific) There are no section groups in this file. Program Headers: Type Offset VirtAddr PhysAddr FileSiz MemSiz Flg Align LOAD 0x000000 0x00010000 0x00010000 0x60ab0 0x60ab0 R E 0x10000 LOAD 0x061000 0x00081000 0x00081000 0x03395 0x05714 RW 0x10000 NOTE 0x0000c0 0x000100c0 0x000100c0 0x00020 0x00020 R 0x10 GNU_STACK 0x000000 0x00000000 0x00000000 0x00000 0x00000 RW 0x10 Section to Segment mapping: Segment Sections... 00 .note.ABI-tag .text .rodata 01 .data .bss 02 .note.ABI-tag 03 There is no dynamic section in this file. There are no relocations in this file. There are no unwind sections in this file. No version information found in this file. Displaying notes found at file offset 0x000000c0 with length 0x00000020: Owner Data size Description GNU 0x00000010 NT_GNU_ABI_TAG (ABI version tag) OS: Linux, ABI: 2.0.0 Attribute Section: aeabi File Attributes Tag_CPU_name: "7-A" Tag_CPU_arch: v7 Tag_CPU_arch_profile: Application Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-2 Tag_FP_arch: VFPv3-D16 Tag_ABI_VFP_args: VFP registers Which looks good to me, does it look ok to others here?