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author | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2021-11-18 16:48:19 +0000 |
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committer | Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> | 2021-11-18 16:48:19 +0000 |
commit | 578c64a45a0e47fd0af53c77339ec0c26ef4874a (patch) | |
tree | b95f61afc34286ad08556eb14848e9ba2d0123a1 /gas/NEWS | |
parent | 76eb8ef1ce470ca71b10fae721e32d49998d87b9 (diff) | |
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Add multibyte character warning option to the assembler.
* 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.
Diffstat (limited to 'gas/NEWS')
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@@ -13,6 +13,14 @@ * Add support for Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) for AArch64. +* The --multibyte-handling=[allow|warn|warn-sym-only] option tells the + assembler what to when it encoutners multibyte characters in the input. The + default is to allow them. Setting the option to "warn" will generate a + warning message whenever any multibyte character is encountered. Using the + option to "warn-sym-only" will make the assembler generate a warning whenever a + symbol is defined containing multibyte characters. (References to undefined + symbols will not generate warnings). + * Outputs of .ds.x directive and .tfloat directive with hex input from x86 assembler have been reduced from 12 bytes to 10 bytes to match the output of .tfloat directive. |