Cross compiling for Cortex A9

I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it. The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause. Some details: The application: main = do putStrLn "Haskell start" The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop. I compile my app as follows: arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs Using -threaded does not fix the problem. Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST: created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1 And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET. When I run on my TARGET, I get: created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ... And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop. Clearly, the following does not occur: cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) And there are overflows. If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop. I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB. But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem. So I think I need one of the following: - A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem Thanks for any help you can give. Mike

could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers:
HOST
====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System")
,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv")
,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc")
,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads")
,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar")
,("ar flags","q")
,("ar supports at file","YES")
,("touch command","touch")
,("dllwrap command","/bin/false")
,("windres command","/bin/false")
,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl")
,("target os","OSLinux")
,("target arch","ArchX86_64")
,("target word size","8")
,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True")
,("target has .ident directive","True")
,("target has subsections via symbols","False")
,("LLVM llc command","llc")
,("LLVM opt command","opt")
,("Project version","7.6.3")
,("Booter version","7.6.3")
,("Stage","2")
,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Have interpreter","YES")
,("Object splitting supported","YES")
,("Have native code generator","YES")
,("Support SMP","YES")
,("Unregisterised","NO")
,("Tables next to code","YES")
,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p")
,("Leading underscore","NO")
,("Debug on","False")
,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc")
,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d")
,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]")
,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]")
]
TARGET
=======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System")
,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv")
,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc")
,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector")
,("C compiler link flags","")
,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld")
,("ld flags","")
,("ld supports compact unwind","YES")
,("ld supports build-id","YES")
,("ld supports filelist","NO")
,("ld is GNU ld","YES")
,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar")
,("ar flags","q")
,("ar supports at file","YES")
,("touch command","touch")
,("dllwrap command","/bin/false")
,("windres command","/bin/false")
,("libtool command","libtool")
,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl")
,("target os","OSLinux")
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}")
,("target word size","4")
,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False")
,("target has .ident directive","True")
,("target has subsections via symbols","False")
,("Unregisterised","NO")
,("LLVM llc command","llc")
,("LLVM opt command","opt")
,("Project version","7.8.2")
,("Booter version","7.6.3")
,("Stage","1")
,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux")
,("Have interpreter","YES")
,("Object splitting supported","NO")
,("Have native code generator","NO")
,("Support SMP","YES")
,("Tables next to code","YES")
,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ")
,("Support dynamic-too","YES")
,("Support parallel --make","YES")
,("Dynamic by default","NO")
,("GHC Dynamic","NO")
,("Leading underscore","NO")
,("Debug on","False")
,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2")
,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d")
]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it. The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
_______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users

hrmmm, i seem to recall it being said that you need to use the GOLD linker
on ARM. (i think some of this is detailed in
http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html )
,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld")
is that GOLD?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Michael Jones
I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers:
HOST ====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.6.3") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d") ,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ]
TARGET =======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags","") ,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") ,("ld flags","") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","YES") ,("ld supports filelist","NO") ,("ld is GNU ld","YES") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.8.2") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","1") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","NO") ,("Have native code generator","NO") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","NO") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d") ]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
wrote: could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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That doc says: ...This will usually manifest itself as a failure of dll-split during the build process with internal error: evacuate(static): strange closure type 0. Which does not happen when I build. Until this is fixed, the newer gold linker will be the only supported linker with GHC on ARM (at least when tables-next-to-code is enabled). GHC now checks that the linker being used isn’t affected by the bug in question, so hopefully users won’t be affected beyond needing to switch linkers. And I don't get an error indicating this bug unless it is a warning missed in the massive build output. So I assumed all was fixed. Nonetheless, I'll dig into the linker notes a bit more. Perhaps I should just try the gold linker if Ben does not respond to this enquiry. Mike Sent from my iPad
On Jul 8, 2014, at 12:03 AM, Carter Schonwald
wrote: hrmmm, i seem to recall it being said that you need to use the GOLD linker on ARM. (i think some of this is detailed in http://bgamari.github.io/posts/2014-03-06-compiling-ghc-7.8-on-arm.html )
,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") is that GOLD?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:51 AM, Michael Jones
wrote: I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers: HOST ====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.6.3") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d") ,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ]
TARGET =======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags","") ,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") ,("ld flags","") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","YES") ,("ld supports filelist","NO") ,("ld is GNU ld","YES") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.8.2") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","1") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","NO") ,("Have native code generator","NO") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","NO") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d") ]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
wrote: could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it. The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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I'm not sure if this is already solved, but if you cross-compile to A9, why do you use ARMv5 platform OS? ("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") this looks really strange. armABI HARD, that means FP data in FP regs, still no VFP in armISAExt and even armISA set to ARMv5. For example on my ubuntu 12.04 I do have: ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}"), which is right for pandaboard which is dual Cortex-A9. So, shortly I really do not know if you do not hit some corner case in LLVM here. I would certainly suggest especially considering your Cortex-A9 target to update your OS to get to what I do have here: ARMv7+VFPv3/NEON+ABI HARD. BTW: Another issue may be that GHC misconfigures on your platform and they you will need to tell us more about your target OS... Cheers, Karel On 07/ 8/14 07:51 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers:
HOST ====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.6.3") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d") ,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ]
TARGET =======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags","") ,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") ,("ld flags","") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","YES") ,("ld supports filelist","NO") ,("ld is GNU ld","YES") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.8.2") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","1") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","NO") ,("Have native code generator","NO") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","NO") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d") ]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote: could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
mailto:mike@proclivis.com> wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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Karel,
Not solved yet, but I did not notice the target problem. It is obvious once pointed out. I’ll try to fix that and try again and report back.
Thanks,
Mike
On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Karel Gardas
I'm not sure if this is already solved, but if you cross-compile to A9, why do you use ARMv5 platform OS?
("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}")
this looks really strange. armABI HARD, that means FP data in FP regs, still no VFP in armISAExt and even armISA set to ARMv5.
For example on my ubuntu 12.04 I do have:
("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}"),
which is right for pandaboard which is dual Cortex-A9.
So, shortly I really do not know if you do not hit some corner case in LLVM here. I would certainly suggest especially considering your Cortex-A9 target to update your OS to get to what I do have here: ARMv7+VFPv3/NEON+ABI HARD.
BTW: Another issue may be that GHC misconfigures on your platform and they you will need to tell us more about your target OS...
Cheers, Karel
On 07/ 8/14 07:51 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers:
HOST ====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.6.3") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d") ,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ]
TARGET =======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags","") ,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") ,("ld flags","") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","YES") ,("ld supports filelist","NO") ,("ld is GNU ld","YES") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.8.2") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","1") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","NO") ,("Have native code generator","NO") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","NO") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d") ]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote: could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
mailto:mike@proclivis.com> wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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Karel,
I have failed to figure out how to make this happen:
("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)
I have added poky to the list of vendors in aclocal.m4 then configured like this:
/configure --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --with-gcc=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
But I end up with ARMv5.
I am new to Autotools and the Haskell build system, so I am not sure what controls this. I assume the idea is that the gcc cross-compiler compiles some code that checks for versions when it evaluates stuff like:
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([
AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
[],
[#if defined(__ARM_ARCH_2__) || \
defined(__ARM_ARCH_3__) || \
defined(__ARM_ARCH_3M__) || \
defined(__ARM_ARCH_4__) || \
defined(__ARM_ARCH_4T__) || \
So I then suspect the compiler needs options like -mcpu=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon to make the proper version defined, so that the code can check the architecture.
But if all these assumptions are true, it is not clear where to put these options. But that is a big if.
Can you explain or point to a doc that explains how this works? The Haskell Developer Wiki does not get into the details at this level.
Or, if you have tweaked files for the Panda, I can difference them with mine and figure it out.
Thanks,
Mike
On Jul 11, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Karel Gardas
I'm not sure if this is already solved, but if you cross-compile to A9, why do you use ARMv5 platform OS?
("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}")
this looks really strange. armABI HARD, that means FP data in FP regs, still no VFP in armISAExt and even armISA set to ARMv5.
For example on my ubuntu 12.04 I do have:
("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}"),
which is right for pandaboard which is dual Cortex-A9.
So, shortly I really do not know if you do not hit some corner case in LLVM here. I would certainly suggest especially considering your Cortex-A9 target to update your OS to get to what I do have here: ARMv7+VFPv3/NEON+ABI HARD.
BTW: Another issue may be that GHC misconfigures on your platform and they you will need to tell us more about your target OS...
Cheers, Karel
On 07/ 8/14 07:51 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
I am pasting both the info from the HOST and TARGET compilers:
HOST ====
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","/usr/bin/gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector -Wl,--hash-size=31 -Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchX86_64") ,("target word size","8") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","True") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.6.3") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","2") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","YES") ,("Have native code generator","YES") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l thr_p dyn debug_dyn thr_dyn thr_debug_dyn thr_debug_p") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/lib/ghc") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/lib/ghc/package.conf.d") ,("Gcc Linker flags","[\"-Wl,--hash-size=31\",\"-Wl,--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ,("Ld Linker flags","[\"--hash-size=31\",\"--reduce-memory-overheads\"]") ]
TARGET =======
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System") ,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv") ,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc") ,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector") ,("C compiler link flags","") ,("ld command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld") ,("ld flags","") ,("ld supports compact unwind","YES") ,("ld supports build-id","YES") ,("ld supports filelist","NO") ,("ld is GNU ld","YES") ,("ar command","/usr/bin/ar") ,("ar flags","q") ,("ar supports at file","YES") ,("touch command","touch") ,("dllwrap command","/bin/false") ,("windres command","/bin/false") ,("libtool command","libtool") ,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl") ,("target os","OSLinux") ,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv5, armISAExt = [], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4") ,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False") ,("target has .ident directive","True") ,("target has subsections via symbols","False") ,("Unregisterised","NO") ,("LLVM llc command","llc") ,("LLVM opt command","opt") ,("Project version","7.8.2") ,("Booter version","7.6.3") ,("Stage","1") ,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux") ,("Target platform","arm-unknown-linux") ,("Have interpreter","YES") ,("Object splitting supported","NO") ,("Have native code generator","NO") ,("Support SMP","YES") ,("Tables next to code","YES") ,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ") ,("Support dynamic-too","YES") ,("Support parallel --make","YES") ,("Dynamic by default","NO") ,("GHC Dynamic","NO") ,("Leading underscore","NO") ,("Debug on","False") ,("LibDir","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2") ,("Global Package DB","/usr/local/lib/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc-7.8.2/package.conf.d") ]
On Jul 7, 2014, at 10:42 PM, Carter Schonwald
mailto:carter.schonwald@gmail.com> wrote: could you share the output of ghc --info?
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:10 AM, Michael Jones
mailto:mike@proclivis.com> wrote: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
I compile my app as follows:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-ghc -debug -static Main.hs
Using -threaded does not fix the problem.
Let me compare debug data from a run on my HOST, with a run on my TARGET. First, a run from my HOST:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (finished) cap 0: created thread 2 cap 0: running thread 2 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 2 stopped (finished) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC removed cap 0 from capset 0 removed cap 0 from capset 1 cap 0: shutting down deleted capset 0 deleted capset 1
And, it prints properly. So this is my referenced for what it should do on the TARGET.
When I run on my TARGET, I get:
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 cap 0: created thread 1 cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (heap overflow) cap 0: starting GC cap 0: GC working cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: GC idle cap 0: GC done cap 0: all caps stopped for GC cap 0: finished GC cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) ...
And the debug data goes on forever, just as debugging assembly demonstrated an infinite loop.
Clearly, the following does not occur:
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (suspended while making a foreign call)
And there are overflows.
If I had to guess, it is possible that some code is in a loop retrying to foreign call, and failing. Certainly, it is in some kind of a loop, because I found a place I can put a break point and and telling GDB to continue will cause the break over and over at the same place. So somewhere there is a loop.
I can step through the application with GDB and see names of files and offsets in assembly. But without a true source code debug, that is a bit rough, especially for someone that does not know the RTS code. If there was a way to compile such that C source code was available and a place to break, that would help. However, I suspect since it never makes a foreign call, there is no place in C to place the breakpoint anyway. So I am also assuming there is no direct way to debug with GDB.
But, I can see debug output printed to the console. My hope is there is a way to enable more printing, or a place I can add more print functions to help find the problem.
So I think I need one of the following:
- A solution from someone that has seen this before, perhaps on the iPhone - How to enable more debug logging - Where in the source code to add debug statements to narrow down the problem
Thanks for any help you can give.
Mike
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On 07/12/14 07:27 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
I have failed to figure out how to make this happen:
("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)
This is result of running ./configure on arm/ubuntu12.04 -- so I don't cross-compile, but rather compile natively. This is still preferred way to be able to run testsuite AFAIK...
I have added poky to the list of vendors in aclocal.m4 then configured like this:
/configure --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --with-gcc=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
But I end up with ARMv5.
I am new to Autotools and the Haskell build system, so I am not sure what controls this. I assume the idea is that the gcc cross-compiler compiles some code that checks for versions when it evaluates stuff like:
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([ AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [], [#if defined(__ARM_ARCH_2__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_3__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_3M__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_4__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_4T__) || \
You arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -v tells what? Also arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null may tell you something.
So I then suspect the compiler needs options like -mcpu=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon to make the proper version defined, so that the code can check the architecture.
It depends on how the compiler is configured. -v will tell you. Mine looks like: karel@panda:~$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.6/lto-wrapper Target: arm-linux-gnueabi Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-multilib --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --build=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-linux-gnueabi Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) Please note --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -- I'm sure you will also be able to build a cross-compiler using those option, so it'll generate ARMv7A code by default, use just half of VFPv3 regs (VFPv3-D16) and generate Thumbs isns by default (not ARM). Karel

Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Mike
#define __ARM_SIZEOF_WCHAR_T 32
#define __ARM_ARCH_ISA_ARM 1
#define __ARM_FP 12
#define __ARM_NEON_FP 4
#define __ARM_SIZEOF_MINIMAL_ENUM 4
#define __ARM_PCS_VFP 1
#define __ARM_ARCH_5T__ 1
#define __ARM_FEATURE_CLZ 1
#define __ARM_ARCH_ISA_THUMB 1
#define __ARM_ARCH 5
#define __arm__ 1
#define __ARM_EABI__ 1
mike@ubuntu:~/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi$ ./arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -v
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=./arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/gcc/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi/4.8.2/lto-wrapper
Target: arm-poky-linux-gnueabi
Configured with: /home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/work-shared/gcc-4.8.2-r0/gcc-4.8.2/configure --build=x86_64-linux --host=x86_64-linux --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --prefix=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr --exec_prefix=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr --bindir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi --sbindir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi --libexecdir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/libexec/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi --datadir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share --sysconfdir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/etc --sharedstatedir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/com --localstatedir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/var --libdir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/lib/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi --includedir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include --oldincludedir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/include --infodir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/info --mandir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/share/man --disable-silent-rules --disable-dependency-tracking --with-libtool-sysroot=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux --enable-clocale=generic --with-gnu-ld --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++ --enable-threads=posix --disable-multilib --enable-c99 --enable-long-long --enable-symvers=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-pch --program-prefix=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi- --without-local-prefix --enable-target-optspace --enable-lto --enable-libssp --disable-bootstrap --disable-libmudflap --with-system-zlib --with-linker-hash-style=gnu --enable-linker-build-id --with-ppl=no --with-cloog=no --enable-checking=release --enable-cheaders=c_global --with-float=hard --with-gxx-include-dir=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/wandboard-quad/usr/include/c++ --with-sysroot=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/wandboard-quad --with-build-sysroot=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/wandboard-quad --enable-poison-system-directories --disable-libunwind-exceptions --with-mpfr=/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr --with-system-zlib --disable-nls
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.8.2 (GCC)
mike@ubuntu:~/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi$
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mike@ubuntu:~/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi$
On Jul 14, 2014, at 2:28 AM, Karel Gardas
On 07/12/14 07:27 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
I have failed to figure out how to make this happen:
("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)
This is result of running ./configure on arm/ubuntu12.04 -- so I don't cross-compile, but rather compile natively. This is still preferred way to be able to run testsuite AFAIK...
I have added poky to the list of vendors in aclocal.m4 then configured like this:
/configure --target=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi --with-gcc=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc
But I end up with ARMv5.
I am new to Autotools and the Haskell build system, so I am not sure what controls this. I assume the idea is that the gcc cross-compiler compiles some code that checks for versions when it evaluates stuff like:
AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([ AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [], [#if defined(__ARM_ARCH_2__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_3__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_3M__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_4__) || \ defined(__ARM_ARCH_4T__) || \
You arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -v tells what? Also arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null may tell you something.
So I then suspect the compiler needs options like -mcpu=cortex-a9 -mfpu=neon to make the proper version defined, so that the code can check the architecture.
It depends on how the compiler is configured. -v will tell you. Mine looks like:
karel@panda:~$ gcc -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabi/4.6/lto-wrapper Target: arm-linux-gnueabi Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.6/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-4.6 --enable-shared --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.6 --libdir=/usr/lib --enable-nls --with-sysroot=/ --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-libstdcxx-time=yes --enable-gnu-unique-object --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --enable-multilib --disable-sjlj-exceptions --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb --disable-werror --enable-checking=release --build=arm-linux-gnueabi --host=arm-linux-gnueabi --target=arm-linux-gnueabi Thread model: posix gcc version 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
Please note --with-arch=armv7-a --with-float=softfp --with-fpu=vfpv3-d16 --with-mode=thumb -- I'm sure you will also be able to build a cross-compiler using those option, so it'll generate ARMv7A code by default, use just half of VFPv3 regs (VFPv3-D16) and generate Thumbs isns by default (not ARM).
Karel

On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use: gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16 you should get the same settings like me. But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-) Cheers, Karel

I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA],
[
changequote(, )dnl
ARM_ISA=ARMv7
ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]"
changequote([, ])dnl
[ARM_ABI="HARD"]
])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS],
[
AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5])
…
arm-poky-*)
$2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9"
;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//.
"rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs
Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ...
done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’
gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’
make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel

OK, so you do have ghc-stage1 which is a cross-compiler. Now, what does ghc-stage1 --info tell you? Aha, you hacked configure, hmm. I don't think this is needed especially if you use proper CFLAGS. Karel On 07/25/14 06:00 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA], [ changequote(, )dnl ARM_ISA=ARMv7 ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]" changequote([, ])dnl [ARM_ABI="HARD"] ])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5]) … arm-poky-*) $2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9" ;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//. "rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ... done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’ make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
mailto:karel.gardas@centrum.cz> wrote: On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel

Karel, On CFLAGS.. When the cross compiler is compiled, does it use gcc, or is gcc only used to compile libraries with the stage-1 compiler? Because if gcc is used for both, I would need different flags for each, and I don't know how to make that happen. Mike Sent from my iPad
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Karel Gardas
wrote: OK, so you do have ghc-stage1 which is a cross-compiler. Now, what does ghc-stage1 --info tell you?
Aha, you hacked configure, hmm. I don't think this is needed especially if you use proper CFLAGS.
Karel
On 07/25/14 06:00 AM, Michael Jones wrote: I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA], [ changequote(, )dnl ARM_ISA=ARMv7 ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]" changequote([, ])dnl [ARM_ABI="HARD"] ])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5]) … arm-poky-*) $2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9" ;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//. "rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ... done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’ make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
mailto:karel.gardas@centrum.cz> wrote: On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote: Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel

Karel,
I think I proved that make dies early if CFLAGS has these options. The local gcc does not support ARM related flags.
I am trying to build the tool chain with —with-arch= and —with-tune== so that it defaults to my target. This will bypass any GHC build issues.
Mike
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Michael Jones
Karel,
On CFLAGS..
When the cross compiler is compiled, does it use gcc, or is gcc only used to compile libraries with the stage-1 compiler?
Because if gcc is used for both, I would need different flags for each, and I don't know how to make that happen.
Mike
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Karel Gardas
wrote: OK, so you do have ghc-stage1 which is a cross-compiler. Now, what does ghc-stage1 --info tell you?
Aha, you hacked configure, hmm. I don't think this is needed especially if you use proper CFLAGS.
Karel
On 07/25/14 06:00 AM, Michael Jones wrote: I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA], [ changequote(, )dnl ARM_ISA=ARMv7 ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]" changequote([, ])dnl [ARM_ABI="HARD"] ])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5]) … arm-poky-*) $2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9" ;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//. "rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ... done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’ make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
mailto:karel.gardas@centrum.cz> wrote: On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote: Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel
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Karel,
I was able to get GHC to compile by rebuilding the gcc cross compiler using —with-arch= and —with-tune=
However, it is not a satisfactory solution, because if a gcc toolchain uses multilibs, adding those options does not make sense. In the case of the Yocto toolchain, it does not use multilibs, so I can get away with it.
I’ll test the compiler tomorrow and see how things go.
Here is the GHC info after building:
[("Project name","The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System")
,("GCC extra via C opts"," -fwrapv")
,("C compiler command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc")
,("C compiler flags"," -fno-stack-protector")
,("C compiler link flags","")
,("Haskell CPP command","arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc")
,("Haskell CPP flags","-E -undef -traditional ")
,("ld command","/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld")
,("ld flags","")
,("ld supports compact unwind","YES")
,("ld supports build-id","YES")
,("ld supports filelist","NO")
,("ld is GNU ld","YES")
,("ar command","/home/mike/fsl-community-bsp/build/tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/cortexa9hf-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ar")
,("ar flags","q")
,("ar supports at file","YES")
,("touch command","touch")
,("dllwrap command","/bin/false")
,("windres command","/bin/false")
,("libtool command","libtool")
,("perl command","/usr/bin/perl")
,("target os","OSLinux")
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
,("target word size","4")
,("target has GNU nonexec stack","False")
,("target has .ident directive","True")
,("target has subsections via symbols","False")
,("Unregisterised","NO")
,("LLVM llc command","/usr/bin/llc")
,("LLVM opt command","/usr/bin/opt")
,("Project version","7.8.3")
,("Booter version","7.6.3")
,("Stage","1")
,("Build platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Host platform","x86_64-unknown-linux")
,("Target platform","arm-poky-linux")
,("Have interpreter","YES")
,("Object splitting supported","NO")
,("Have native code generator","NO")
,("Support SMP","YES")
,("Tables next to code","YES")
,("RTS ways","l debug thr thr_debug thr_l ")
,("Support dynamic-too","YES")
,("Support parallel --make","YES")
,("Dynamic by default","NO")
,("GHC Dynamic","NO")
,("Leading underscore","NO")
,("Debug on","False")
,("LibDir","/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/inplace/lib")
,("Global Package DB","/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/inplace/lib/package.conf.d")
]
On Aug 1, 2014, at 8:02 PM, Michael Jones
Karel,
I think I proved that make dies early if CFLAGS has these options. The local gcc does not support ARM related flags.
I am trying to build the tool chain with —with-arch= and —with-tune== so that it defaults to my target. This will bypass any GHC build issues.
Mike
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Michael Jones
wrote: Karel,
On CFLAGS..
When the cross compiler is compiled, does it use gcc, or is gcc only used to compile libraries with the stage-1 compiler?
Because if gcc is used for both, I would need different flags for each, and I don't know how to make that happen.
Mike
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Karel Gardas
wrote: OK, so you do have ghc-stage1 which is a cross-compiler. Now, what does ghc-stage1 --info tell you?
Aha, you hacked configure, hmm. I don't think this is needed especially if you use proper CFLAGS.
Karel
On 07/25/14 06:00 AM, Michael Jones wrote: I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA], [ changequote(, )dnl ARM_ISA=ARMv7 ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]" changequote([, ])dnl [ARM_ABI="HARD"] ])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5]) … arm-poky-*) $2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9" ;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//. "rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ... done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’ make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
mailto:karel.gardas@centrum.cz> wrote: On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote: Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel
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Karel,
My configure hack is now limited to two hacks on GHC 7.8.3. The vendor “pokey", and the ARM settings that make the target architecture correct. I also enabled profiling in build.mk. So pretty clean. No compiler options. GHC compiles clean.
I am getting a stack overflow during execution of the hello world applicaiton. I compiled like:
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ghc -static -debug -auto-all -caf-all -prof Main.hs
I ran on the target like:
./Main +RTS -Ds -Di -Db -DS -Dt -Da 2>log
I attached a log. Search for overflow.
created capset 0 of type 2
created capset 1 of type 3
cap 0: initialised
assigned cap 0 to capset 0
assigned cap 0 to capset 1
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 125 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 124 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 123 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
free block list [0]:
free block list [1]:
free block list [2]:
free block list [3]:
free block list [4]:
free block list [5]:
free block list [6]:
group at 0x76c82000, length 122 blocks
free block list [7]:
free block list [8]:
new task (taskCount: 1)
cap 0: created thread 1
new bound thread (1)
cap 0: schedule()
cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC)
stg_ap_v_ret... PAP/1(0x5ba25a, 0x5a3670)
stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.MVar.MVar(0x76c020d4)
stg_ap_v_ret...
On 08/ 2/14 07:04 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4")
this looks good, but I hope you got it on clean tree, i.e. without your configure hack...
Karel

To be complete, there is an old link on compiling for arm, and it recommends this build process:
$ chmod ugo+rx build-ghc-arm.sh
Edit build-ghc-arm.sh to fix EOF
$ ./build-ghc-arm.sh -j4
$ make test
$ sudo make install
$ arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ghc --info
This way of building produces the same result as below. So I am guessing that problems that this fixed moons ago no longer exist, or produce different problems that are masked.
What will help me, not knowing the RTS, is if anyone can recognize the failure pattern and give me some hints where in the code the problem might be. That way I can add some logging specifically related to the problem to get more data, and limit my study of the RTS code to a specific set of files.
My other thought is if there is some test code that might help reveal the problem. Something that if it runs, and the log is clean, perhaps eliminates possible problems. The RTS is able to write a log via stdio, so that could be exploited to run test code that can log information. But the hello world fails to write to stdio. So perhaps the problem occurs in the start up phase where the thread is created and things go wrong before hello world is executed. This would suggest any test code would have to be run within the RTS itself. Is there some way to enable some ASSERTIONS within RTS that would help narrow down the problem?
Also, is there any way to compile up something small to run the RTS without any Haskell libraries, etc, so and debug it with a C/C++ debugger? I am able to debug other C/C++ programs on the target device, so if I had a C/C++ program, code, etc, I could run and debug it.
Mike
On Aug 2, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Michael Jones
Karel,
My configure hack is now limited to two hacks on GHC 7.8.3. The vendor “pokey", and the ARM settings that make the target architecture correct. I also enabled profiling in build.mk. So pretty clean. No compiler options. GHC compiles clean.
I am getting a stack overflow during execution of the hello world applicaiton. I compiled like:
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ghc -static -debug -auto-all -caf-all -prof Main.hs
I ran on the target like:
./Main +RTS -Ds -Di -Db -DS -Dt -Da 2>log
I attached a log. Search for overflow.
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 125 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 124 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 123 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 122 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: new task (taskCount: 1) cap 0: created thread 1 new bound thread (1) cap 0: schedule() cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) stg_ap_v_ret... PAP/1(0x5ba25a, 0x5a3670) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.MVar.MVar(0x76c020d4) stg_ap_v_ret...
(0xa964, CAF:main) stg_ap_v_ret... PAP/1(0x5bce1a, 0x76c02160) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c021a9, 0x76c0219a) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023d1, 0x76c023be) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.IO.Encoding.Types.TextEncoding(0x5aadd0, 0x76c026c5, 0x76c02665) stg_ap_v_ret... (0x59458, CAF) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c029a1, 0x76c02992) stg_ap_0_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.IO.Encoding.Types.TextEncoding(0x5aadd0, 0x76c02aa1, 0x76c02a41) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023d1, 0x76c02b40) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023ad, 0x76c02ba8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02389, 0x76c02c10) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02365, 0x76c02c78) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02341, 0x76c02ce0) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c0231d, 0x76c02d48) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022f9, 0x76c02db0) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022d5, 0x76c02e18) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022b1, 0x76c02e80) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c0228d, 0x76c02ee8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02269, 0x76c02f50) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02245, 0x76c02fb8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02221, 0x76c0502c) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c021fd, 0x76c05094) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]() stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02b14) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02b7c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02be4) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02c4c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02cb4) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02d1c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02d84) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02dec) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02e54) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02ebc) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02f24) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02f8c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c05000) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c05068) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]() stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) On Aug 2, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: On 08/ 2/14 07:04 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4")
this looks good, but I hope you got it on clean tree, i.e. without your configure hack...
Karel
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I ran the same program on my dev linux and compared it to see if there were clues.
On my dev box (Ubuntu) here are some snippets of the log (working app)
new task (taskCount: 1)
cap 0: created thread 1
new bound thread (1)
cap 0: schedule()
cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC)
New weak pointer at 0x7f7788704050
stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.MVar.MVar(0x7f7788704148)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x7f7788704281, 0x7f7788704272)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x7f7788704421, 0x7f778870440a)
New weak pointer at 0x7f7788706188
stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.IO.Handle.Types.FileHandle(0x6d4080, 0x7f77887060b0)
And on the failing embedded target:
new task (taskCount: 1)
cap 0: created thread 1
new bound thread (1)
cap 0: schedule()
cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC)
New weak pointer at 0x76c02038
stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.MVar.MVar(0x76c020d4)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c021a9, 0x76c0219a)
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding)
cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023d1, 0x76c023be)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c029a1, 0x76c02992)
stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c05068)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]()
stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c)
stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980)
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow)
A couple of things are different in the failing target. First, the thread yields, and then is allowed to run, whereas on Ubuntu it just runs to completion. Second, there is a second set of primitive calls:
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c029a1, 0x76c02992)
stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]()
cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow)
And this is followed by the stack overflow. These two calls are not present when run on Ubuntu.
The original source is:
module Main where
main::IO()
main = putStr "Hello world!”
As a reminder, the difference is:
Working: Standard GHC on Ubuntu
Failing: Cross compiled for Cortex A and run on Wandboard with Yocto Linux
Do these extra two calls give any clues to the cause of the stack flow?
The other thing to note, is the working version eventually gets to various IO calls. These are never reached in the failing version. So it seems to be choking in the type system code before it gets to IO. Is there a test program that could be run that might narrow down the problem?
Mike
On Aug 4, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Michael Jones
To be complete, there is an old link on compiling for arm, and it recommends this build process:
$ chmod ugo+rx build-ghc-arm.sh Edit build-ghc-arm.sh to fix EOF $ ./build-ghc-arm.sh -j4 $ make test $ sudo make install $ arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ghc --info
This way of building produces the same result as below. So I am guessing that problems that this fixed moons ago no longer exist, or produce different problems that are masked.
What will help me, not knowing the RTS, is if anyone can recognize the failure pattern and give me some hints where in the code the problem might be. That way I can add some logging specifically related to the problem to get more data, and limit my study of the RTS code to a specific set of files.
My other thought is if there is some test code that might help reveal the problem. Something that if it runs, and the log is clean, perhaps eliminates possible problems. The RTS is able to write a log via stdio, so that could be exploited to run test code that can log information. But the hello world fails to write to stdio. So perhaps the problem occurs in the start up phase where the thread is created and things go wrong before hello world is executed. This would suggest any test code would have to be run within the RTS itself. Is there some way to enable some ASSERTIONS within RTS that would help narrow down the problem?
Also, is there any way to compile up something small to run the RTS without any Haskell libraries, etc, so and debug it with a C/C++ debugger? I am able to debug other C/C++ programs on the target device, so if I had a C/C++ program, code, etc, I could run and debug it.
Mike
On Aug 2, 2014, at 4:04 PM, Michael Jones
wrote: Karel,
My configure hack is now limited to two hacks on GHC 7.8.3. The vendor “pokey", and the ARM settings that make the target architecture correct. I also enabled profiling in build.mk. So pretty clean. No compiler options. GHC compiles clean.
I am getting a stack overflow during execution of the hello world applicaiton. I compiled like:
arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ghc -static -debug -auto-all -caf-all -prof Main.hs
I ran on the target like:
./Main +RTS -Ds -Di -Db -DS -Dt -Da 2>log
I attached a log. Search for overflow.
created capset 0 of type 2 created capset 1 of type 3 cap 0: initialised assigned cap 0 to capset 0 assigned cap 0 to capset 1 free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 126 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 125 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 124 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 123 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: free block list [0]: free block list [1]: free block list [2]: free block list [3]: free block list [4]: free block list [5]: free block list [6]: group at 0x76c82000, length 122 blocks free block list [7]: free block list [8]: new task (taskCount: 1) cap 0: created thread 1 new bound thread (1) cap 0: schedule() cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) stg_ap_v_ret... PAP/1(0x5ba25a, 0x5a3670) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.MVar.MVar(0x76c020d4) stg_ap_v_ret...
(0xa964, CAF:main) stg_ap_v_ret... PAP/1(0x5bce1a, 0x76c02160) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c021a9, 0x76c0219a) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023d1, 0x76c023be) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (yielding) cap 0: running thread 1 (ThreadRunGHC) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.IO.Encoding.Types.TextEncoding(0x5aadd0, 0x76c026c5, 0x76c02665) stg_ap_v_ret... (0x59458, CAF) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Tuple.(,)(0x76c029a1, 0x76c02992) stg_ap_0_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_0_ret... base:GHC.IO.Encoding.Types.TextEncoding(0x5aadd0, 0x76c02aa1, 0x76c02a41) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023d1, 0x76c02b40) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c023ad, 0x76c02ba8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02389, 0x76c02c10) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02365, 0x76c02c78) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02341, 0x76c02ce0) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c0231d, 0x76c02d48) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022f9, 0x76c02db0) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022d5, 0x76c02e18) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c022b1, 0x76c02e80) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c0228d, 0x76c02ee8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02269, 0x76c02f50) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02245, 0x76c02fb8) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c02221, 0x76c0502c) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.:(0x76c021fd, 0x76c05094) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]() stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02b14) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02b7c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02be4) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02c4c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02cb4) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02d1c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02d84) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02dec) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02e54) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02ebc) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02f24) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c02f8c) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c05000) stg_ap_0_ret... THUNK_SELECTOR(0x46ee50, CAF, 0x76c05068) stg_ap_0_ret... ghc-prim:GHC.Types.[]() stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) stg_ap_v_ret... IND_STATIC(0x76c0360c) stg_ap_v_ret... FUN/1(0x59088, CAF, 0x76c02980) cap 0: thread 1 stopped (stack overflow) On Aug 2, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Karel Gardas wrote: On 08/ 2/14 07:04 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}") ,("target word size","4")
this looks good, but I hope you got it on clean tree, i.e. without your configure hack...
Karel
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IIRC, CFLAGS should be needed only for configure which should detect your architecture well and generate appropriate settings file. GHC itself should not use them IIRC. If you need something special, then you can use mk/build.mk But I'm not expert for cross-compiling GHC, nor for cross-compiling using GHC which is the reason why I recommended native compilation especially since this is possible and the least problematic way to go... Karel On 08/ 2/14 04:02 AM, Michael Jones wrote:
Karel,
I think I proved that make dies early if CFLAGS has these options. The local gcc does not support ARM related flags.
I am trying to build the tool chain with —with-arch= and —with-tune== so that it defaults to my target. This will bypass any GHC build issues.
Mike
On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Michael Jones
wrote: Karel,
On CFLAGS..
When the cross compiler is compiled, does it use gcc, or is gcc only used to compile libraries with the stage-1 compiler?
Because if gcc is used for both, I would need different flags for each, and I don't know how to make that happen.
Mike
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On Aug 1, 2014, at 3:19 AM, Karel Gardas
wrote: OK, so you do have ghc-stage1 which is a cross-compiler. Now, what does ghc-stage1 --info tell you?
Aha, you hacked configure, hmm. I don't think this is needed especially if you use proper CFLAGS.
Karel
On 07/25/14 06:00 AM, Michael Jones wrote: I have some progress, and a problem. First, note I am using the 7.8.3 tar ball, for this discussion here.
If you read through, you will see a request for help at the end. It looks like the cross compilation is trying to build stage2 when it shouldn’t.
In order to get the resulting stage1 cross compiler to have:
,("target arch","ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}")
I hacked this:
AC_DEFUN([GET_ARM_ISA], [ changequote(, )dnl ARM_ISA=ARMv7 ARM_ISA_EXT="[VFPv3,NEON]" changequote([, ])dnl [ARM_ABI="HARD"] ])
Now, my gcc cross compiler does not default to ARMv7. To compile for my Cortex A, I add these options:
-march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9
So I need to make sure that when building the libraries with stage1, it passes the correct options. To do that:
AC_DEFUN([FPTOOLS_SET_C_LD_FLAGS], [ AC_MSG_CHECKING([Setting up $2, $3, $4 and $5]) … arm-poky-*) $2="$$2 -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9" ;;
Which results in a stage1 compiler with:
,("C compiler flags"," -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector”)
As the build proceeds, all calls to stage1 are completing. Then, the build gets to this point:
"inplace/bin/mkdirhier" compiler/stage2/build//. "rm" -f compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs Creating compiler/stage2/build/Config.hs ... done.
And I assume this means it is trying to build stage2. Correct me if I am wrong.
Eventually I get a build failure like this:
gcc -E -DMAKING_GHC_BUILD_SYSTEM_DEPENDENCIES -march=armv7-a -mthumb-interwork -mfloat-abi=hard -mfpu=neon -mtune=cortex-a9 -fno-stack-protector -Icompiler/. -Icompiler/parser -Icompiler/utils -Icompiler/../rts/dist/build -Icompiler/stage2 -DGHCI -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/process/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/directory/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/unix/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/time/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/containers/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/bytestring/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/libraries/base/include' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/rts/dist/build' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes' -I'/home/mike/ghc-7.8.3/includes/dist-derivedconstants/header' -MM -x c compiler/parser/cutils.c -MF compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm.bit gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mthumb-interwork’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfloat-abi=hard’ gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-mfpu=neon’ make[1]: *** [compiler/stage2/build/.depend-v.c_asm] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2
It is applying the -march… arguments to the local gcc. I am guessing that compiling for stage2 is using the local gcc because stage2 is only built when not making a cross compiler.
Now, in build.mk I have:
BuildFlavour = quick-cross
Which is supposed to prevent stage2 compilation.
Something is wrong. Either I need to stop stage2 compilation, if that is what this is really doing, or prevent gcc from using the extra arguments. But I see no reason to run gcc. Seems like that would only be used at stage0 if at all.
Mike
On Jul 14, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Karel Gardas
mailto:karel.gardas@centrum.cz> wrote: On 07/14/14 04:58 PM, Michael Jones wrote: Karel,
Thanks. This helps.
If I understand, you have Linux running on a Panda, and on that Panda system you have gcc, and you compile GHC on the Panda itself, rather than build a cross compiler. I can see the advantage of building this way.
Correct!
As far as cross compilers, I have a reason for trying to build a cross compiler, other than the ability to keep the image of the target small. That is, eventually, I want to be able to compile for an RTOS and/or bare iron system. I decided that learning to cross compile for Linux first would be a good approach. Learn the build system on something known to work. So I probably will not give up on that.
That is right, in future I'd also like to give a try to port GHC to some free RTOS and for this I'd need to use cross-compiling anyway, so I'll be on the same boat...
I got a book on Autoconfig. I’ll just have to dig a level deeper into the whole build system. Mainly it means learning the M4 system. I have never used it.
Below are the defines from the command you suggested. Thanks for that, got me over an ignorance hump. At least this define, __ARM_ARCH_5T__, is in the aclocal.m4 file. So I will have to study the macros until I figure out what controls the gcc options passed to the gcc cross compiler. I guess my question is what actually controls this result ("target arch", "ArchARM {armISA = ARMv7, armISAExt = [VFPv3,NEON], armABI = HARD}”)?
Are these controlled by the defines below, or are they controlled by passing gcc arguments to the gcc compiler when the Haskell compiler calls gcc?
Basically speaking all those are controlled by platform gcc. That means if you pass the right option to your cross-compiling gcc you should also get the same result, so for example if you use:
gcc -mfloat-abi=hard -march=armv7-a -mfpu=vfpv3-d16
you should get the same settings like me.
But anyway, please note that ABI you set to your cross-compiler *have to* match the ABI provided by the target RTOS/OS! I hope that's clear. :-)
Cheers, Karel
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Michael Jones
I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
Sorry for the delay, almost overlooked this one!
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
Hmmm, very peculiar. I would probably begin by compiling with `-auto-all -caf-all -prof` and run the resulting executable with `+RTS -xc`. SIGINT the process after a second or so and see what the backtrace looks like. While worth trying, this probably won't help too much as your problem is likely RTS-related. You might try stracing the executable and see if it is ever even trying a syscall. Unfortunately, I doubt it is as the program appears to be hitting heap and stack overflows. This is quite perplexing. I'm going to try to reproduce the issue on my end. Cheers, - Ben

Ben,
I ran into a snag trying to use the options you suggested. First, I was not sure where to use the flags, so I pasted a piece of my build.mk. You can correct it if I have it wrong.
I also get a compile error that I pasted after the build.mk text.
I have not made any changes except in aclocal.m4 so that my configure can recognize the target. It can’t figure out the tools, so I add options for all of them. The tools are for the target. That was my interpretation of the wiki. It finds the host tools on its own.
add eabi support in aclocal.m4...
autoreconf
./configure --target=arm-linux-gnueabi --with-gcc=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gcc --with-ld=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ld --with-nm=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-nm --with-ar=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ar --with-ranlib=arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-ranlib
# -------- A Fast build configured for cross-compilation ----------------------
ifeq "$(BuildFlavour)" "quick-cross"
SRC_HC_OPTS = -H64m -O0 -auto-all -caf-all -prof
GhcStage1HcOpts = -O -fllvm -auto-all -caf-all -prof
GhcStage2HcOpts = -O0 -fllvm
GhcLibHcOpts = -O -fllvm -auto-all -caf-all -prof
SplitObjs = NO
HADDOCK_DOCS = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_HTML = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PS = NO
BUILD_DOCBOOK_PDF = NO
INTEGER_LIBRARY = integer-simple
Stage1Only = YES
DYNAMIC_BY_DEFAULT = NO
DYNAMIC_GHC_PROGRAMS = NO
endif
echo "compiler_stage1_depfile_haskell_EXISTS = YES" >> compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.haskell.tmp
for dir in compiler/stage1/build/./ compiler/stage1/build/CodeGen/ compiler/stage1/build/CodeGen/Platform/ compiler/stage1/build/Hoopl/ compiler/stage1/build/Llvm/ compiler/stage1/build/LlvmCodeGen/ compiler/stage1/build/PPC/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Graph/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Linear/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Linear/PPC/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Linear/SPARC/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Linear/X86/ compiler/stage1/build/RegAlloc/Linear/X86_64/ compiler/stage1/build/SPARC/ compiler/stage1/build/SPARC/CodeGen/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/Builtins/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/Generic/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/Monad/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/Type/ compiler/stage1/build/Vectorise/Utils/ compiler/stage1/build/X86/; do if test ! -d $dir; then mkdir -p $dir; fi done
grep -v ' : [a-zA-Z]:/' compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.haskell.tmp > compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.haskell.tmp2
sed -e '/hs$/ p' -e '/hs$/ s/o /hi /g' -e '/hs$/ s/:/ : %hi: %o /' -e '/hs$/ s/^/$(eval $(call hi-rule,/' -e '/hs$/ s/$/))/' -e '/hs-boot$/ p' -e '/hs-boot$/ s/o-boot /hi-boot /g' -e '/hs-boot$/ s/:/ : %hi-boot: %o-boot /' -e '/hs-boot$/ s/^/$(eval $(call hi-rule,/' -e '/hs-boot$/ s/$/))/' compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.haskell.tmp2 > compiler/stage1/build/.depend-v.haskell
utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:46: warning: overriding commands for target `install_utils/ghc-pkg_dist_wrapper'
utils/ghc-pkg/ghc.mk:37: warning: ignoring old commands for target `install_utils/ghc-pkg_dist_wrapper'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `libraries/terminfo/dist-boot/build/System/Console/Terminfo.p_hi', needed by `utils/ghc-pkg/dist/build/Main.o'. Stop.
On Jul 9, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Ben Gamari
Michael Jones
writes: I am having problems building a GHC cross compiler for Linux (Yocto on a Wandboard) running on a Cortex A9, and need some advice on how to debug it.
Sorry for the delay, almost overlooked this one!
The cross compiler produces an executable that runs on the Target, but fails to print. So I need help coming up with a strategy to narrow down the root cause.
Some details:
The application:
main = do putStrLn "Haskell start"
The command line options work. The program runs, and I can step through assembly. Debug data is printed to the console. But putStrLn fails, and program enters an infinite loop.
Hmmm, very peculiar. I would probably begin by compiling with `-auto-all -caf-all -prof` and run the resulting executable with `+RTS -xc`. SIGINT the process after a second or so and see what the backtrace looks like.
While worth trying, this probably won't help too much as your problem is likely RTS-related. You might try stracing the executable and see if it is ever even trying a syscall.
Unfortunately, I doubt it is as the program appears to be hitting heap and stack overflows. This is quite perplexing. I'm going to try to reproduce the issue on my end.
Cheers,
- Ben
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