From ba307cddcf7e42c5099632dcbad598d8f96044f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Frysinger Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 00:54:20 -0400 Subject: sim: overhaul alignment settings management Currently, the sim-config module will abort if alignment settings haven't been specified by the port's configure.ac. This is a bit weird when we've allowed SIM_AC_OPTION_ALIGNMENT to seem like it's optional to use. Thus everyone invokes it. There are 4 alignment settings, but really only 2 matters: strict and nonstrict. The "mixed" setting is just the default ("unset"), and "forced" isn't used directly by anyone (it's available as a runtime option for some ports). The m4 macro has 2 args: the "wire" settings (which represents the hardwired port behavior), and the default settings (which are used if nothing else is specified). If none are specified, then the build won't work (see above as if SIM_AC_OPTION_ALIGNMENT wasn't called). If default settings are provided, then that is used, but we allow the user to override at runtime. Otherwise, the "wire" settings are used and user runtime options to change are ignored. Most ports specify a default, or set the "wire" to nonstrict. A few set "wire" to strict, but it's not clear that's necessary as it doesn't make the code behavior, by default, any different. It might make things a little faster, but we should provide the user the choice of the compromises to make: force a specific mode at compile time for faster runtime, or allow the choice at runtime. More likely it seems like an oversight when these ports were initially created, and/or copied & pasted from existing ports. With all that backstory, let's get to what this commit does. First kill off the idea of a compile-time default alignment and set it to nonstrict in the common code. For any ports that want strict alignment by default, that code is moved to sim_open while initializing the sim. That means WITH_DEFAULT_ALIGNMENT can be completely removed. Moving the default alignment to the runtime also allows removal of setting the "wire" settings at configure time. Which allows removing of all arguments to SIM_AC_OPTION_ALIGNMENT and moving that call to common code. The macro logic can be reworked to not pass WITH_ALIGNMENT as -D CPPFLAG and instead move it to config.h. All of these taken together mean we can hoist the macro up to the top level and share it among all sims so behavior is consistent among all the ports. --- sim/riscv/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'sim/riscv/ChangeLog') diff --git a/sim/riscv/ChangeLog b/sim/riscv/ChangeLog index 0427805..04cc234 100644 --- a/sim/riscv/ChangeLog +++ b/sim/riscv/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2021-06-12 Mike Frysinger + * configure.ac: Delete call to SIM_AC_OPTION_ALIGNMENT. + +2021-06-12 Mike Frysinger + * aclocal.m4, config.in, configure: Regenerate. 2021-06-12 Mike Frysinger -- cgit v1.1