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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Forcing GNAT to use 32-bit load/store instructions on ARM?
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 10:11:11 +0200
Date: 2014-07-01T10:11:11+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1j7b0m3yptffy$.1cztnkty8elrv$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 0e0b9ac2-e793-4cc5-8d8d-d3441ca28a58@googlegroups.com

On Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:11:31 -0700 (PDT), daniel.dmk@googlemail.com wrote:

> I've started using GNAT GPL for ARM (hosted on Windows) and I'm working on
> some code in SPARK 2014 to interface to memory-mapped registers to control
> registers on the STM32 F4 microcontroller, however I'm having trouble
> where GNAT is using byte loads/stores to the registers, instead of word
> load/stores (32-bit).

There is a middle way between assembly insertion and pure Ada. You could
try GCC's __sync_fetch_and_or and __sync_bool_compare_and_swap for atomic
load/store.

https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Atomic-Builtins.html

> Things I have tried:
> 1) Using the Atomic aspect on the record type and CR object had no effect
> on the code generated.

Yes, I hope they will fix this for this and other platforms, e.g. 64-bit
atomic load/store for i686.

-- 
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-07-01  8:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-30 22:11 Forcing GNAT to use 32-bit load/store instructions on ARM? daniel.dmk
2014-06-30 23:41 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-01 12:06   ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 15:44     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-01 17:26       ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 17:18     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-01 19:43       ` Simon Wright
2014-07-01 17:28     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-07-01  0:55 ` anon
2014-07-01  4:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-01  8:11 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2014-07-01 12:09   ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 12:20     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-01 17:00       ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 19:36         ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-01 20:08           ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-02 22:24             ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-06 20:40               ` MatthiasR
2014-07-07  0:25                 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-07 22:38                 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-08  6:51                   ` Simon Wright
2014-07-10 11:47                     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-10 13:06                       ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-11 18:05                         ` Simon Wright
2014-07-11 20:22                           ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08  8:50                   ` Brian Drummond
2014-07-08 12:12                   ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 13:26                     ` G.B.
2014-07-08 17:13                       ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-08 15:36                     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-08 15:40                       ` Adam Beneschan
2014-07-08 20:34                     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-07-09  7:31                       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2014-07-10  0:11                         ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-20 11:35                   ` MatthiasR
2014-07-20 15:49                     ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-26 11:05                       ` MatthiasR
2014-08-10 11:20                         ` MatthiasR
2014-07-01 12:03 ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 19:52   ` daniel.dmk
2014-07-01 20:40     ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 20:55       ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 21:01       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-01 21:20         ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 22:38           ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-02 16:49             ` Simon Clubley
2014-07-01 21:55         ` daniel.dmk
2014-07-02  7:30     ` Simon Wright
2014-07-02 18:52       ` daniel.dmk
2014-07-04 23:51       ` Niklas Holsti
2014-07-05  0:18         ` Niklas Holsti
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