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sim/erc32: fix gdb with simulator build
In commit: commit 7b01c1c Date: Mon Apr 4 22:38:04 2022 +0100 sim: fixes for libopcodes styled disassembler changes were made to the simulator source to handle the new libopcodes disassembler styling API. Unfortunately, these changes broke building GDB with the erc32 (sparc) simulator, like this: ../src/configure --target=sparc-linux make all-gdb .... /usr/bin/ld: ../sim/erc32/libsim.a(interf.o): in function `sim_open': /tmp/build/sim/../../src/sim/erc32/interf.c:247: undefined reference to `fprintf_styled' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status The problem is that in commit 7b01c1c the fprintf_styled function was added into sis.c. This file is only used when building the 'run' binary, that is, the standalone simulator, and is not included in the libsim.a library. Now, the obvious fix would be to move fprintf_styled into libsim.a, however, that turns out to be tricky. The erc32 simulator currently has two copies of the function run_sim, one in sis.c, and one in interf.c, both of these copies are global. Currently, the 'run' binary links fine, though I suspect this might be pure luck. When I tried moving fprintf_styled into interf.c, I ran into multiple-definition (of run_sim) errors. I suspect that by requiring the linker to pull in fprintf_styled from libsim.a I was changing the order in which symbols were loaded, and the linker was now seeing both copies of run_sim, while currently we only see one copy. The ideal solution of course, would be to merge the two similar, but slightly different copies of run_sim, and just use the one copy. Then we could safely move fprintf_styled into interf.c too, and all would be good. But I don't have time right now to start debugging the erc32 simulator, so I wanted a solution that fixes the build without introducing multiple definition errors. The easiest solution I think is to just have two copies of fprintf_styled, one in sis.c, and one in interf.c. Unlike run_sim, these two copies are both static, so we will not run into multiple definition issues with this function. The functions themselves are not very big, so it's not a huge amount of duplicate code. I am very aware that this is not an ideal solution, and I would welcome anyone who wants to take on fixing the run_sim problem properly, and then cleanup the fprintf_styled duplication.
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