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<title>OpenPOWER ELFv2 Errata</title>
<subtitle>For ELFv2 ABI Version 1.4</subtitle>

<info>
<author>
<personname>
System Software Work Group
</personname>
<email>syssw-chair@openpowerfoundation.org</email>
<affiliation>
<orgname>OpenPower Foundation</orgname>
</affiliation>
</author>
<copyright>
<year>2018</year>
<holder>OpenPOWER Foundation</holder>
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<releaseinfo>Revision 1.0</releaseinfo>
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<para>This document provides errata against version 1.4 of the
OpenPOWER ELF v2 Application Binary Interface Specification. These
errata should be considered part of said specification until such
time as a newer version of the full specification is published.</para>
<para>This document is a Non-standard Track, Work Group Note work
product owned by the System Software Workgroup and handled in compliance
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<email>syssw-elfv2abi@mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org</email>.</para>
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<title>Errata</title>
<para>The following statements in version 1.4 of the 64-Bit ELF V2 ABI
Specification for the Power Architecture are incorrect, and should be
considered corrected as specified.</para>
<section>
<title>Section 2.1.2.2, Fundamental Types</title>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem</emphasis>: Paragraph 2 contains a
statement that makes use of undefined behavior according to the C standard.
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
Regardless of the alignment rules for the allocation of data types,
pointers to both aligned and unaligned data of each data type shall
return the value corresponding to a data type starting at the specified
address when accessed with either the pointer dereference operator * or
the array reference operator [ ].
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution</emphasis>: Paragraph 2 is stricken
from the ABI.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Section 6.1, Vector Data Types</title>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 1</emphasis>: The following sentence
likewise makes use of undefined behavior according to the C standard.
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
While the preferred alignment for vector data types is a multiple of 16
bytes, pointers may point to vector objects at an arbitrary alignment.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
As stated in Table 2.12, Vector Types, <emphasis>all</emphasis> vector
types have quadword alignment; there is no "preferred" alignment.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 1</emphasis>: The offending sentence
is stricken from the ABI.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 2</emphasis>: This section contains
another sentence and an example that likewise make use of undefined
behavior according to the C standard. The offending sentence reads:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
The use of vector built-in functions such as vec_xl and vec_xst is
discouraged except for languages where no dereference operators are
available.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
The offending example appears directly afterwards.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 2</emphasis>: The offending sentence
is replaced as follows:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
The dereference operator * may <emphasis>not</emphasis> be used to
access data that is not aligned at least to a quadword boundary.
Built-in functions such as vec_xl and vec_xst are provided for
unaligned data access.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
The offending example is stricken from the ABI.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Section 6.4, Vector Built-In Functions</title>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 1</emphasis>: The Note following
Table 6.1 likewise encourages undefined behavior (in this context):
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
Reminder: The assignment operator = is the preferred way to assign
values from one vector data type to another vector data type in
accordance with the C and C++ programming languages.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 1</emphasis>: The Note is
stricken from the ABI.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 2</emphasis>: The paragraph following
Table 6.2 ends with the following sentence that likewise encourages
undefined behavior:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
It is recommended that programmers use the assignment operator =
or the vector vec_xl and vec_xst vector built-in functions to access
unaligned data streams.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 2</emphasis>: This sentence is
replaced as follows:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
It is recommended that programmers use the vec_xl and vec_xst
vector built-in functions to access unaligned data streams.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 3</emphasis>: The first sentence of
the second paragraph following Table 6.2 wrongly identifies vec_xl and
vec_xst as optional built-ins:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
The set of extended mnemonics in Table 6.3, "Optional Built-In Memory
Access Functions" [127] may be provided by some compilers and are not
required by the Power SIMD programming interfaces.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
The title of Table 6.3 likewise calls these optional.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 3</emphasis>: The title of Table
6.3 is changed to "VSX Memory Access Built-In Functions", and this
sentence is replaced as follows:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
The built-in functions in Table 6.3, "VSX Memory Access Built-In
Functions" [127] provide unaligned access to data in memory that
is to be copied to or from a variable having vector data type.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem 4</emphasis>: The second paragraph
following Table 6.2 contains one sentence that likewise encourages
undefined behavior, and another sentence that is simply incorrect:
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
In particular, the assignment operator = will have the same effect
of copying values between vector data types and provides a preferable
method to assign values while giving the compiler more freedom to
optimize data allocation. The only use for these functions is to
support some coding patterns enabling big-endian vector layout code
sequences in both big-endian and little-endian environments.
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
The second sentence applies to functions in table 6.4, not 6.3.
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution 4</emphasis>: The offending
sentences are stricken from the ABI.
</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>
Section 6.4.1, Big-Endian Vector Layout in Little-Endian Environments
</title>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Problem</emphasis>: Table 6.8, and the
sentence preceding it, wrongly identify the vec_xl and vec_xst
built-in functions as optional.
</para>
<para>
<blockquote>
<para>
See Table 6.8, "Optional Built-In Memory Access Functions (BE Layout
in LE Mode)" [129].
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
<para>
<emphasis role="underline">Resolution</emphasis>: Table 6.8 is renamed
"VSX Built-In Memory Access Functions (BE Layout in LE Mode)" and
referenced thus in the preceding sentence.
</para>
</section>
</chapter>

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