Retract the most recent changes to get Linux ELF binaries to work.

These changes do not and cannot work, because signal handlers cannot
be run while the special Scheme segment registers are in use.  The
reason is that the signal handlers are registered as 32-bit offsets,
and the associated segment descriptors are not registered with those
offsets; when the signal arrives, the offset is used with whatever
segment descriptor happens to be in the CS register.  When the Scheme
segment descriptors are in place, this offset is meaningless and
causes Scheme to die immediately with a SIGSEGV.

One possible workaround for this problem would be to re-register the
signal handlers whenever the segment registers are hacked, but this is
very expensive in time, and the Scheme<->C interface is already too
slow.  The only other feasibility is to get the Linux kernel changed
so that signal handlers are invoked in a known segment without regard
to the contents of CS at the time of the signal; but although this is
a sensible idea, it's necessary to convince the kernel developer's of
it's desirability, and meanwhile the existing Linux installations will
not work.

diff --git a/v7/src/microcode/s/linux.h b/v7/src/microcode/s/linux.h
index 02c7fef175e8d9b750af009b9abdfe648685bfa2..8b21543adf9f5b03f128a4cfca4935df9e1e644e 100644 (file)
--- a/v7/src/microcode/s/linux.h
+++ b/v7/src/microcode/s/linux.h
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /* -*-C-*-
    System file for Linux
 
-$Id: linux.h,v 1.5 1995/10/05 06:33:15 cph Exp $
+$Id: linux.h,v 1.6 1995/10/06 06:45:24 cph Exp $
 
 Copyright (c) 1995 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
@@ -41,6 +41,21 @@ MIT in each case. */
 
 #define ALTERNATE_M4 s/ultrix.m4
 
+/* The following change is necessary if ELF binaries are used.
+   Unfortunately, it is insufficient, because the Linux ELF
+   implementation also moves the text and data segments to 0x08000000,
+   which means that all of the pointer manipulation code must be
+   changed.  This is normal for some architectures, e.g. the MIPS and
+   HPPA, but it make the binaries for Linux ELF different for the
+   binaries for all other i386 machines.
+
+   Since I don't currently know any way to adjust the mapping of the
+   segments, if ELF is in use, I'll just force the switch that causes
+   GCC to generate a.out format instead of ELF.  This is a temporary
+   patch, because one of these days a.out won't be supported, but
+   hopefully by then we'll know how to fix this correctly.  */
+
+#if 0
 #ifdef __ELF__
 #define C_SWITCH_SYSTEM -D_LINUX_ELF
 #define M4_SWITCH_SYSTEM -P "define(LINUX_ELF,1)"
@@ -48,3 +63,12 @@ MIT in each case. */
 #define C_SWITCH_SYSTEM
 #define M4_SWITCH_SYSTEM
 #endif
+#endif
+
+#ifdef __ELF__
+#define C_SWITCH_SYSTEM -b i486-linuxaout
+#define LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM -b i486-linuxaout
+#else
+#define C_SWITCH_SYSTEM
+#define LD_SWITCH_SYSTEM
+#endif