#!/usr/bin/env python # Work around x86emu bugs by replacing problematic instructions. # # Copyright (C) 2012 Kevin O'Connor # # This file may be distributed under the terms of the GNU GPLv3 license. # The x86emu code widely used in Linux distributions when running Xorg # in vesamode is known to have issues with "retl", "leavel", "entryl", # "leal", and some variants of "calll". This code modifies those # instructions that are known to be generated by gcc to avoid # triggering the x86emu bugs. # It is also known that the Windows vgabios emulator has issues with # addressing negative offsets to the %esp register. That has been # worked around by not using the gcc parameter "-fomit-frame-pointer" # when compiling. import sys, re # leal parameter regex - example string: -3(%edx,%eax,8), %eax re_leal = re.compile( r'^\s*(?P[^(]*?)\s*' r'\(\s*(?P[^,)]*?)\s*(?:,\s*(?P[^,)]*?)\s*)?' r'(?:,\s*(?P[^,)]*?)\s*)?\)\s*' r',\s*(?P.*?)\s*$') # Find an alternate set of instructions for a given "leal" instruction def handle_leal(sline): m = re_leal.match(sline[5:]) if m is None or m.group('index') == '%esp': print("Unable to fixup leal instruction: %s" % (sline,)) sys.exit(-1) offset, base, index, scale, dest = m.group( 'offset', 'base', 'index', 'scale', 'dest') if dest == '%esp': # If destination is %esp then just use 16bit leaw instead return 'leaw %s\n' % (sline[5:].replace('%e', '%'),) if not scale: scale = '1' scale = {1: 0, 2: 1, 4: 2, 8: 3}[int(scale, 0)] # Try to rearrange arguments to simplify 'base' (to improve code gen) if not scale and base == index: base, index, scale = '', index, 1 elif not index or (not scale and base in (dest, '%esp') and index != dest): base, index, scale = index, base, 0 # Produce instructions to calculate "leal" insns = ['pushfw'] if base != dest: # Calculate "leal" directly in dest register if index != dest: insns.insert(0, 'movl %s, %s' % (index, dest)) if scale: insns.append('shll $%d, %s' % (scale, dest)) if base: if base == '%esp': offset += '+2' insns.append('addl %s, %s' % (base, dest)) elif base == index: # Use "imull" method insns.append('imull $%d, %s' % ((1< %s\n %s" % (sline, out[-1].strip())) else: out.append(line) infile.close() outfile = open(outfilename, 'w') outfile.write(''.join(out)) outfile.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main()