Some DW_CFA_* and DW_OP_* take wider than byte, but non-LEB128 operands.
Having to hand-encode such when needing to resort to .cfi_escape isn't
very helpful.
On casual reading of older gcc configure scripts it might be supposed
that the test for gas string merge support tries with %progbits after
a fail on ARM with @progbits. It doesn't succeed due to a bug. So to
support building of older gcc's for ARM without users having to edit
gcc sources, add a hack to gas. The hack can disappear in a few years
when building older gcc's likely requires other work too.
I've changed the docs to reflect what we actually allow for .section
syntax prior to this patch. (No way should this hack be documented as
allowed!)
PR 32491
* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_section): Allow missing entsize
for ARM gcc configure bug.
* doc/as.texi: Correct syntax of ELF .section directive.
* testsuite/gas/elf/string.s,
* testsuite/gas/elf/string.d: Test it.
Commit af3394d97a allowed sections
declared with "S" (SHF_STRING) to specify the entity size, but then
would warn if the entity size was omitted, as with the old syntax.
Unfortunately, since specifying the entity size is incompatible with
binutils 2.43 or earlier, this makes it impossible to specify a
strings section in source code without generating an assembly warning
(the new syntax isn't supported in older assemblers and the old syntax
generates warnings).
Nevertheless, the old code was wrong in that it did not set the entity
size at all, in contravention of the ELF specification (though to date
there are no known cases where this mattered outside of mergeable
sections).
Fix this by permitting the original syntax without a warning again,
but by defaulting the entity size to 1. This is compatible with the
most common case of strings being byte-based.
Added some tests for the various flavours of declaration that we
support.
gas currently emits informational messages for context information along warnings.
In the context of system register tests in AArch64 backend, these messages
pollute the tests when checking for error message patterns in stderr output.
This patch aims at providing two new flags while preserving the existing
behavior if none of the options is provided.
* --info, similar to the existing --warn flag to enable diagnostic
informational messages (default behavior).
* --no-info, similar to the existing --no-warn flag to disable diagnostic
informational messages.
It also adds the flags to the existing documentation, and command manual.
The Nios II architecture has been EOL'ed by the vendor. This patch
removes all binutils, bfd, gas, binutils, and opcodes support for this
target with the exception of the readelf utility. (The ELF EM_*
number remains valid and the relocation definitions from the Nios II
ABI will never change in future, so retaining the readelf support
seems consistent with its purpose as a utility that tries to parse the
headers in any ELF file provided as an argument regardless of target.)
It's not overly useful without it, but the spec doesn't name any
dependency between the two. People may want to use it for purely
informational purposes, for example. Adjust, in particular, entity size
processing to be engaged if either flag is set, as mandated by the spec.
From especially the checks for the two separator forms it appears to
follow that the construct being touched is about trailing whitespace. In
such a case, considering that for many targets ordinary and line comment
chars overlap, take into account that line comment chars override
ordinary ones in lex[] (logic elsewhere in do_scrub_chars() actually
depends on that ordering, and also accounts for this overriding).
Plus of course IS_NEWLINE() would better also be consulted. Note also
that the DOUBLESLASH_LINE_COMMENTS change should generally have no
effect just yet; it's a prereq for a later change but better fits here.
Leave respective comments as well, and update documentation to correct
which comment form is actually replaced by a single blank (i.e. neither
the ones starting with what {,tc_}comment_chars[] has nor the ones
starting with what line_comment_chars[] has).
- help message: add a comma between the short and long option
- as doc:
- brief summary of how to invoke gas: separate [-w] [-x] on a new line as those
two options have nothing to do with the warning options.
- reordering of the warning options to have the same order as the listing.
- no-warn option description: change an "and" to a "or", as it is either the short
or long option to use, but not both at the same time.
- remove trailing whitespaces.
PR gas/31752
While not quite as macro-like as .irp / .irpc, this perhaps benefits from
supporting \+ even more than those: It allows, where desired, to get away
without maintaining an explicit count variable in source code.
Keep .rep (and custom per-arch uses of s_rept() / do_repeat()) behavior
unaltered.
The present handling of inner double quotes can lead to very strange
diagnostics. Follow one of the two possible interpretations of the doc:
@dots{} referring to possibly multiple white space separated
@var{values}, each of which may be quoted. The original implementation,
prior to 465e561723 ("PR gas/3856"), hints at the other possible
interpretation: When quoted there's only a single @var{values}, with
inner quotes taken as ordinary characters. That, however, seems overall
less useful to me.
While touching the documentation, mirror the (inverse) spelling
correction (@section line inconsistent with actual description) to .irp
as well.
Print a warning message when the register type of a specified register
name does not match with the operand's register type:
operand {#}: expected {access|control|floating-point|general|vector}
register name [as {base|index} register]
Introduce a s390-specific assembler option "warn-regtype-mismatch"
with the values "strict", "relaxed", and "no" as well as an option
"no-warn-regtype-mismatch" which control whether the assembler
performs register name type checks and generates above warning messages.
warn-regtype-mismatch=strict:
Perform strict register name type checks.
warn-regtype-mismatch=relaxed:
Perform relaxed register name type checks, which allow floating-point
register (FPR) names %f0 to %f15 to be specified as argument to vector
register (VR) operands and vector register (VR) names %v0 to %v15 to
be specified as argument to floating-point register (FPR) operands.
This is acceptable as the FPRs are embedded into the lower halves of
the VRs. Make "relaxed" the default, as GCC generates assembler code
using FPR and VR interchangeably, which would cause assembler warnings
to be generated with "strict".
warn-regtype-mismatch=no:
no-warn-regtype-mismatch:
Disable any register name type checks.
Tag .insn pseudo mnemonics as such, to skip register name type checks
on those. They need to be skipped, as there do not exist .insn pseudo
mnemonics for every possible operand register type combination. Keep
track of the currently parsed operand number to provide it as reference
in warning messages.
To verify that the introduction of this change does not unnecessarily
affect the compilation of existing code the GNU Binutils, GNU C Library,
and Linux Kernel have been build with the new assembler, verifying that
the assembler did not generate any of the new warning messages.
gas/
* config/tc-s390.c: Handle new assembler options
"[no]warn-regtype-mismatch[=strict|relaxed|no". Annotate
parsed register expressions with register type. Keep track of
operand number being parsed. Print warning message in case of
register type mismatch between instruction operand and parsed
register expression.
* doc/as.texi: Document new s390-specific assembler options
"[no-]warn-regtype-mismatch[=strict|relaxed|no]".
* NEWS: Mention new s390-specific register name type checks and
related assembler option "warn-regtype-mismatch=strict|
relaxed|no".
* testsuite/gas/s390/s390.exp: Add test cases for new assembler
option "warn-regtype-mismatch={strict|relaxed}".
* testsuite/gas/s390/esa-g5.s: Fix register types in tests for
didbr, diebr, tbdr, and tbedr.
* testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-z13.s: Fix register types in tests
for vgef, vgeg, vscef, and vsceg.
* testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-warn-regtype-mismatch-strict.s:
Tests for assembler option "warn-regtype-mismatch=strict".
* testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-warn-regtype-mismatch-strict.l:
Likewise.
* gas/testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-warn-regtype-mismatch-relaxed.s:
Tests for assembler option "warn-regtype-mismatch=relaxed".
* gas/testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-warn-regtype-mismatch-relaxed.l:
Likewise.
* gas/testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-omitted-base-index-err.s: Update
test cases for assembler option "warn-regtype-mismatch"
defaulting to "relaxed".
* testsuite/gas/s390/zarch-omitted-base-index-err.l: Likewise.
include/
* opcode/s390.h (S390_INSTR_FLAG_PSEUDO_MNEMONIC): Add
instruction flag to tag .insn pseudo-mnemonics.
opcodes/
* s390-opc.c (s390_opformats): Tag .insn pseudo-mnemonics as
such.
Reviewed-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Remus <jremus@linux.ibm.com>
Add a new listing option, -i, to emit ginsn in the listing output. We
may also emit other SCFI information if necessary in the future.
ginsn are most useful when seen alongside the assembly instructions.
Hence, they are emitted when the user includes the assembly instructions
in the listing output, i.e., "-ali=FILE".
gas/doc/:
* as.texi: Add documentation for the new listing option, -i.
When the command line option --scfi=experimenta is passed to the GNU
assembler, it will synthesize DWARF call frame information (CFI) for the
input assembly.
The option --scfi=experimental will also ignore most of the existing
.cfi_* directives, if already contained in the provided input file.
Only the following CFI directives will not be ignored:
- .cfi_sections,
- .cfi_label,
- .cfi_signal_frame
To use SCFI, a target will need to:
- define TARGET_USE_SCFI and TARGET_USE_GINSN, and other necessary
definitions,
- provide means to help GAS understand the target specific instruction
semantics by creating ginsns.
The upcoming support for SCFI is inteded to be experimental, hence the
option --scfi=experimental. The --scfi= may see more options like
--scfi=[all,none] added in future, once the SCFI support in GAS is
mature and robust. The offering may also see for example, an
--scfi=inline option for dealing with inline asm may be added in the
future. In --scfi=inline option, the GNU assembler may consume (and not
ignore) the compiler generated CFI for the code surrounding the inline
asm.
Also document the option.
gas/
* as.c (show_usage): Add support for --scfi=experimental.
(parse_args): Likewise.
* as.h (enum synth_cfi_type): Define new type.
* doc/as.texi: Document the new option.
Adds two new external authors to etc/update-copyright.py to cover
bfd/ax_tls.m4, and adds gprofng to dirs handled automatically, then
updates copyright messages as follows:
1) Update cgen/utils.scm emitted copyrights.
2) Run "etc/update-copyright.py --this-year" with an extra external
author I haven't committed, 'Kalray SA.', to cover gas testsuite
files (which should have their copyright message removed).
3) Build with --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-cgen-maint=yes.
4) Check out */po/*.pot which we don't update frequently.
While --sectname-subst is nice, it isn't enough to e.g. mimic
-f{function,data}-sections in assembly code, when such use is to be
optional (e.g. dependent upon some configuration setting).
Assign meaning to '+' and '-' as section attribute letters, allowing
to inherit the prior section's attributes (and possibly type) along
with adding or removing some. Note that documenting the interaction
with '?' as undefined is a precautionary measure.
While touching the function invocation, stop using |= on the result of
obj_elf_parse_section_letters(): "attr" is firmly zero ahead of the
call.
Rewrite the paragraph to match the style of Tag_GNU_MIPS_ABI_FP text
immediately above, correcting grammar and formatting at the same time.
gas/
* doc/as.texi (MIPS Attributes): Correct Tag_GNU_MIPS_ABI_MSA
attribute description.
Unary '~' doesn't really produce an unsigned result. Neither does
subtraction (unless taking operand values into consideration). And an
abstract operator applied to two operands which aren't both unsigned
can't be assumed to yield an unsigned result; exceptions are
- shifts, where only signedness of the left hand operand matters,
- comparisons, which - unlike unary '!' - produce signed results (they
deliver 0 or ~0, as opposed to '!', which yields 0 or 1),
- logical operators (yielding 0 or 1 and hence treated like unary '!').
While doing this (specifically while extending the all/quad testcase),
update .quad and .8byte documentation: With 64-bit architectures now
being common, it is highly inappropriate to state that these directives
unconditionally require bignums.
Well, it doesn't work on x86 or ppc, which both have # starting
comments anywhere on a line. I think it is therefore only useful on
sparc.
PR 11601
* config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_section_word): Only compile for sparc.
(obj_elf_section): Only support solaris .section directive on
sparc.
* doc/as.texi (Section): Mention that solaris .section
directive is only supported for sparc.
The newer update-copyright.py fixes file encoding too, removing cr/lf
on binutils/bfdtest2.c and ld/testsuite/ld-cygwin/exe-export.exp, and
embedded cr in binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/ar.exp string match.
Currently supported for x86_64 and aarch64 only.
[PS: Currently, the compiler has not been adapted to generate
".cfi_sections" with ".sframe" in it. The newly added command line
option of --gsframe provides an easy way to try out .sframe support
in the toolchain.]
gas interprets the CFI directives to generate DWARF-based .eh_frame
info. These internal DWARF structures are now consumed by
gen-sframe.[ch] sub-system to, in turn, create the SFrame unwind
information. These internal DWARF structures are read-only for the
purpose of SFrame unwind info generation.
SFrame unwind info generation does not impact .eh_frame unwind info
generation. Both .eh_frame and .sframe can co-exist in an ELF file,
if so desired by the user.
Recall that SFrame unwind information only contains the minimal
necessary information to generate backtraces and does not provide
information to recover all callee-saved registers. The reason being
that callee-saved registers other than FP are not needed for stack
unwinding, and hence are not included in the .sframe section.
Consequently, gen-sframe.[ch] only needs to interpret a subset of
DWARF opcodes in gas. More details follow.
[Set 1, Interpreted] The following opcodes are interpreted:
- DW_CFA_advance_loc
- DW_CFA_def_cfa
- DW_CFA_def_cfa_register
- DW_CFA_def_cfa_offset
- DW_CFA_offset
- DW_CFA_remember_state
- DW_CFA_restore_state
- DW_CFA_restore
[Set 2, Bypassed] The following opcodes are acknowledged but are not
necessary for generating SFrame unwind info:
- DW_CFA_undefined
- DW_CFA_same_value
Anything else apart from the two above-mentioned sets is skipped
altogether. This means that any function containing a CFI directive not
in Set 1 or Set 2 above, will not have any SFrame unwind information
generated for them. Holes in instructions covered by FREs of a single
FDE are not representable in the SFrame unwind format.
As few examples, following opcodes are not processed for .sframe
generation, and are skipped:
- .cfi_personality*
- .cfi_*lsda
- .cfi_escape
- .cfi_negate_ra_state
- ...
Not processing .cfi_escape, .cfi_negate_ra_state will cause SFrame
unwind information to be absent for SFrame FDEs that contain these CFI
directives, hence affecting the asynchronicity.
x86-64 and aarch64 backends need to have a few new definitions and
functions for .sframe generation. These provide gas with architecture
specific information like the SP/FP/RA register numbers and an
SFrame-specific ABI marker.
Lastly, the patch also implements an optimization for size, where
specific fragments containing SFrame FRE start address and SFrame FDE
function are fixed up. This is similar to other similar optimizations
in gas, where fragments are sized and fixed up when the associated
symbols can be resolved. This optimization is controlled by a #define
SFRAME_FRE_TYPE_SELECTION_OPT and should be easy to turn off if needed.
The optimization is on by default for both x86_64 and aarch64.
ChangeLog:
* gas/Makefile.am: Include gen-sframe.c and sframe-opt.c.
* gas/Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* gas/as.h (enum _relax_state): Add new state rs_sframe.
(sframe_estimate_size_before_relax): New function.
(sframe_relax_frag): Likewise.
(sframe_convert_frag): Likewise.
* gas/config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_support_sframe_p): New
definition.
(aarch64_sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(aarch64_sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(aarch64_sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
(md_begin): Set values of sp/fp/ra registers.
* gas/config/tc-aarch64.h (aarch64_support_sframe_p): New
declaration.
(support_sframe_p): Likewise.
(SFRAME_CFA_SP_REG): Likewise.
(SFRAME_CFA_FP_REG): Likewise.
(SFRAME_CFA_RA_REG): Likewise.
(aarch64_sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(aarch64_sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(aarch64_sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
(sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
* gas/config/tc-i386.c (x86_support_sframe_p): New definition.
(x86_sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(x86_sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(x86_sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
* gas/config/tc-i386.h (x86_support_sframe_p): New declaration.
(support_sframe_p): Likewise.
(SFRAME_CFA_SP_REG): Likewise.
(SFRAME_CFA_FP_REG): Likewise.
(x86_sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(sframe_ra_tracking_p): Likewise.
(x86_sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(sframe_cfa_ra_offset): Likewise.
(x86_sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
(sframe_get_abi_arch): Likewise.
* gas/config/tc-xtensa.c (unrelaxed_frag_max_size): Add case for
rs_sframe.
* gas/doc/as.texi: Add .sframe to the documentation for
.cfi_sections.
* gas/dw2gencfi.c (cfi_finish): Create a .sframe section.
* gas/dw2gencfi.h (CFI_EMIT_sframe): New definition.
* gas/write.c (cvt_frag_to_fill): Handle rs_sframe.
(relax_segment): Likewise.
* gas/gen-sframe.c: New file.
* gas/gen-sframe.h: New file.
* gas/sframe-opt.c: New file.
When --gsframe is specified, the assembler will generate a .sframe
section from the CFI directives in the assembly.
ChangeLog:
* gas/as.c (parse_args): Parse args and set flag_gen_sframe.
* gas/as.h: Introduce skeleton for --gsframe.
* gas/doc/as.texi: document --gsframe.
PR29397 PR29563: Add new configure option --with-zstd which defaults to
auto. If pkgconfig/libzstd.pc is found, define HAVE_ZSTD and support
zstd compressed debug sections for most tools.
* bfd: for addr2line, objdump --dwarf, gdb, etc
* gas: support --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* ld: support ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD input and --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* objcopy: support ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD input for
--decompress-debug-sections and --compress-debug-sections=zstd
* gdb: support ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD input. The bfd change references zstd
symbols, so gdb has to link against -lzstd in this patch.
If zstd is not supported, ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD input triggers an error. We
can avoid HAVE_ZSTD if binutils-gdb imports zstd/ like zlib/, but this
is too heavyweight, so don't do it for now.
```
% ld/ld-new a.o
ld/ld-new: a.o: section .debug_abbrev is compressed with zstd, but BFD is not built with zstd support
...
% ld/ld-new a.o --compress-debug-sections=zstd
ld/ld-new: --compress-debug-sections=zstd: ld is not built with zstd support
% binutils/objcopy --compress-debug-sections=zstd a.o b.o
binutils/objcopy: --compress-debug-sections=zstd: binutils is not built with zstd support
% binutils/objcopy b.o --decompress-debug-sections
binutils/objcopy: zstd.o: section .debug_abbrev is compressed with zstd, but BFD is not built with zstd support
...
```
So far z16 was identified as arch14. After the machine has been
announced we can now add the real name.
gas/ChangeLog:
* config/tc-s390.c (s390_parse_cpu): Add z16 as alternate CPU
name.
* doc/as.texi: Add z16 and arch14 to CPU string list.
* doc/c-s390.texi: Add z16 to CPU string list.
opcodes/ChangeLog:
* s390-mkopc.c (main): Enable z16 as CPU string in the opcode
table.
Macro arguments may be separated by commas or just whitespace. Macro
arguments may also be quoted (where one level of quotes is removed in
the course of determining the values for the respective formal
parameters). Furthermore this quote removal knows _two_ somewhat odd
escaping mechanisms: One, apparently in existence forever, is that a
pair of quotes counts as the escaping of a quote, with the pair being
transformed to a single quote in the course of quote removal. The other
(introduced by c06ae4f232) looks more usual on the surface in that it
deals with \" sequences, but it _retains_ the escaping \. Hence only the
former mechanism is suitable when the value to be used by the macro body
is to contain a quote. Yet this results in ambiguity of what "a""b" is
intended to mean; elsewhere (e.g. for .ascii) it represents two
successive string literals. However, in any event is the above different
from "a" "b": I don't think this can be viewed the same as "a""b" when
processing macro arguments.
Change the scrubber to retain such whitespace, by making the processing
of strings more similar to that of symbols. And indeed this appears to
make sense when taking into account that for quite a while gas has been
supporting quoted symbol names.
Taking a more general view, however, the change doesn't go quite far
enough. There are further cases where significant whitespace is removed
by the scrubber. The new testcase enumerates a few in its ".if 0"
section. I'm afraid the only way that I see to deal with this would be
to significantly simplify the scrubber, such that it wouldn't do much
more than collapse sequences of unquoted whitespace into a single blank.
To be honest problems in this area aren't really surprising when seeing
that there's hardly any checking of .macro use throughout the testsuite
(and in particular in the [relatively] generic tests under all/).
The result of running etc/update-copyright.py --this-year, fixing all
the files whose mode is changed by the script, plus a build with
--enable-maintainer-mode --enable-cgen-maint=yes, then checking
out */po/*.pot which we don't update frequently.
The copy of cgen was with commit d1dd5fcc38ead reverted as that commit
breaks building of bfp opcodes files.
* as.c (parse_args): Add support for --multibyte-handling.
* as.h (multibyte_handling): Declare.
* app.c (scan_for_multibyte_characters): New function.
(do_scrub_chars): Call the new function if multibyte warning is
enabled.
* input-scrub,c (input_scrub_next_buffer): Call the multibyte
scanning function if multibyte warnings are enabled.
* symbols.c (struct symbol_flags): Add multibyte_warned bit.
(symbol_init): Call the multibyte scanning function if multibyte
symbol warnings are enabled.
(S_SET_SEGMENT): Likewise.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* doc/as.texi: Document the new feature.
* testsuite/gas/all/multibyte.s: New test source file.
* testsuite/gas/all/multibyte1.d: New test driver file.
* testsuite/gas/all/multibyte1.l: New test expected output.
* testsuite/gas/all/multibyte2.d: New test driver file.
* testsuite/gas/all/multibyte2.l: New test expected output.
* testsuite/gas/all/gas.exp: Run the new tests.
