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hoglet67 / PiTubeDirect

Bare-metal Raspberry Pi project that attaches to the Acorn TUBE interface and emulates many BBC Micro Co Processors
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Native ARM Co Pro: Implement X SWI Bit #210

Open hoglet67 opened 4 months ago

hoglet67 commented 4 months ago

See discussion here: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=424768#p424768

To correctly handle the X prefix, the SWI handler (in tube-swi.c) would need to install a temporary error handler. This would restore the original error handler, unwind the call and return to the caller with the V bit set. A non-error would also need to restore the original error handler and return with the V bit clear.

See #200 for how this was done in the RISC-V ECall Handler

hoglet67 commented 4 months ago

Started work on this, in the armnative_xbit branch

It's not currently working, because when generating an error the privilege level reduces to user mode . So the SWI handler ends up completing in user mode, and then hits a privileged instruction which causes an exception.

(Setjmp/Longjmp doesn't preserve the current privilege level)

There probably needs to be a way to specify that an error handler is run in supervisor mode.