This allows the compiler to generate significantly better code, because
it does not have to maintain either the loop counter or loop limit. Plus
there are half as many symbols to relocate. This also simplifies passing
carray arrays to helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel.holland@sifive.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Add a comment about where auto-generated file came from to the carray.sh
output. This should help avoiding confusion for the developers looking
at the build artifacts and finding .c files there.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov <ivan.orlov0322@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <ajones@ventanamicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Not all systems have bash at a fixed location like /bin/bash.
FreeBSD, for example, would typically have it at /usr/local/bin/bash.
When building OpenSBI on freebsd system, the build breaks.
Its advisable to use: #!/usr/bin/env bash
Signed-off-by: Himanshu Chauhan <hchauhan@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiang W <wxjstz@126.com>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Generating C array at compile time based on details provided by
objects.mk is a very useful feature which will help us compile
only a subset of drivers or modules.
We add a bash script (carray.sh) which takes array details and
object/variable list from command-line to generate a C source
containing array of object/variable pointers. We also extend
top-level makefile to use carray.sh whenever specified through
objects.mk.
Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <apatel@ventanamicro.com>
Reviewed-by: Atish Patra <atishp@rivosinc.com>
