Re: HTIF tohost symbol size check always fails

[Alistair Francis]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 7:59 AM Peer Adelt <adelt@hni.upb.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem with the RISC-V HTIF device.
>
> Every binary I have compiled for Spike on riscv32 fails with the following 
> error message: "HTIF tohost must be 8 bytes"
>
> This happens regardless of which program I have translated for Spike. This is 
> also the case with the official riscv-compliance tests, for example.
>
> The query "if (st_size != 8)" in the HTIF device always fails, because 
> st_size seems to be always 0.
>
> To be able to reproduce it:
> - QEMU GIT Hash: d0ed6a69d399ae193959225cdeaa9382746c91cc (tag "v5.1.0")

I just checked with this hash and with the current master and on both
I can run a ELF executable on the Spike machine for RV32.

> - System: Mac OS 10.14.6 (Darwin Kernel Version 18.7.0)
> - Compiler: Latest SiFive Build for GCC under OSX

Maybe try using an official toolchain instead of a vendor fork.

Alistair

> - Command: qemu-system-riscv32 -M spike -nographic -bios none -kernel 
> <ANY_SPIKE_ELF_FILE>
>
> Best regards,
> Peer Adelt