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-rw-r--r--gas/config/tc-arm.c30
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-arm.c b/gas/config/tc-arm.c
index 343b2e7..41bcfb8 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-arm.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-arm.c
@@ -8922,14 +8922,32 @@ move_or_literal_pool (int i, enum lit_type t, bool mode_3)
uint64_t v;
if (inst.relocs[0].exp.X_op == O_big)
{
- LITTLENUM_TYPE w[X_PRECISION];
- LITTLENUM_TYPE * l;
+ LITTLENUM_TYPE *l;
- if (inst.relocs[0].exp.X_add_number == -1)
+ if (inst.relocs[0].exp.X_add_number <= 0) /* FP value. */
{
- gen_to_words (w, X_PRECISION, E_PRECISION);
- l = w;
- /* FIXME: Should we check words w[2..5] ? */
+ /* FIXME: The code that was here previously could not
+ work. Firstly, it tried to convert a floating point
+ number into an extended precision format, but only
+ provided a buffer of 5 littlenums, which was too
+ small. Secondly, it then didn't deal with the value
+ converted correctly, just reading out the first 4
+ littlenum fields and assuming that could be used
+ directly.
+
+ I think the code was intended to handle expressions
+ such as:
+
+ LDR r0, =1.0
+ VLDR d0, =55.3
+
+ but the parsers currently don't permit floating-point
+ literal values to be written this way, so this code
+ is probably unreachable. To be safe, we simply
+ return an error here. */
+
+ inst.error = _("constant expression not supported");
+ return true;
}
else
l = generic_bignum;