[OpenBIOS] Q: How to "squeeze" C functions in between two symbols?

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

Andreas Färber wrote:

> I was successful using a section ".rtasentry", but since I get r4 as a 
> pointer to the start of memory, I'll rather use a known offset.
> 
> I got OpenBIOS to load my RTAS blob and AIX to enter my RTAS C function 
> and emit something to escc uart from there. It looks like AIX is trying 
> to emit "\nAIX " via display-character RTAS calls.
> My code's not very stable though, the same code snippet didn't work 
> inside a [{static,inline}] serial_putchar() function but did directly in 
> my main function called from assembly. Still poking at ldscript and 
> assembler to find the cause or a workaround. Right now it does print 
> okay but hangs on returning from the RTAS call. Will post an RFC once 
> I've cleaned it up a little, maybe it's something obvious...
> 
> Andreas

I don't know if it helps with PPC, but on SPARC64 there is an issue 
whereby if you are compiling with -O0 (which is typical during 
development), you need to allow extra stack space when switching 
contexts. Does compiling with -Os solve the issue at all?


ATB,

Mark.

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