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2025-07-11union alpha_macro_argAlan Modra1-115/+113
Rename the old enum alpha_macro_arg to alpha_macro_argset, and create a union alpha_macro_arg to use in all the alpha_macro.emit functions. This avoids intptr_t casts on retrieving index values and void* casts on storing them in the alpha_macros array.
2025-07-10RISC-V: Fixed wrong imply result for zce when -march=rv32id_zceNelson Chu5-31/+23
The entry of "zce imply zcf" needs check_implicit_for_zcf, so it needs to be placed after the entries of "whatever imply f". Otherwise the implicit zcf may be missed. Also merge the march-implu-zce* testcases into imply testcases.
2025-07-10RISC-V: Clarify the imply rule of cNelson Chu14-32/+45
This also fix the imply result for .option rvc. Imply zcf when c and f and rv32 Imply zcd when c and d Imply zca when c Changed INSN_CLASS_C to INSN_CLASS_ZCA Changed INSN_CLASS_F_AND_C to INSN_CLASS_ZCF Changed INSN_CLASS_D_AND_C to INSN_CLASS_ZCD Changed INSN_CLASS_ZIHINTNTL_AND_C to INSN_CLASS_ZIHINTNTL_AND_ZCA
2025-07-10RISC-V: Deprecate ".option arch, -ext" for users due to its controversial useNelson Chu14-35/+36
Before we figure out the whole remove situations for ".option arch, -ext", and have any RISC-V public spec defines it, we should just deprecate it.
2025-07-09gas: ld: sframe: add new internal headerIndu Bhagat1-3/+3
for SFRAME_V2_GNU_AS_LD_ENCODING_FLAGS. The intention of creating an abstraction like SFRAME_V2_GNU_AS_LD_ENCODING_FLAGS is to address the concern that there should be a central place to enforce harmonious flags between GNU as and ld. At the moment, the only flag that needs to be enforced is SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. sframe.h and sframe-api.h are installed headers by libsframe for the specification and implementation respectively. Adding a definition like SFRAME_V2_GNU_AS_LD_ENCODING_FLAGS does not fit in either. Create a new internal header instead to keep the definition uncoupled from sframe.h and sframe-api.h. Rename the previously added SFRAME_F_LD_MUSTHAVE_FLAGS to define the new SFRAME_V2_GNU_AS_LD_ENCODING_FLAGS. bfd/ * elf-sframe.c (_bfd_elf_merge_section_sframe): Use the new internal header and SFRAME_V2_GNU_AS_LD_ENCODING_FLAGS. gas/ * gen-sframe.c (output_sframe_internal): Likewise. include/ * sframe-api.h (SFRAME_F_LD_MUSTHAVE_FLAGS): Move from.. * sframe-internal.h: ..to here. New file.
2025-07-09gas remove assorted unnecessary castsAlan Modra44-224/+190
This continues the saga of removing unnecessary casts, and making small code tidies in gas. Hopefully this sees the last of K&R anachronisms.
2025-07-09gas standardise md_section_alignAlan Modra25-25/+25
The point here is that when valueT is 64 bits and int is 32 bits, 1 << align doesn't work for shifts larger than the size of int. (Not that anyone is likely to use such large alignments in real code.)
2025-07-09gas function arg castsAlan Modra32-117/+104
This patch removes more unnecessary arg casts in various function calls.
2025-07-09gas fixupsAlan Modra10-43/+27
Remove unnecessary arg casts in fix_new and similar calls.
2025-07-09gas char/unsigned char castsAlan Modra22-101/+93
This patch removes many unneeded casts to char or unsigned char. It's worth noting that safe-ctype.h macros ISDIGIT and the like cope with either signed or unsigned char. In some cases a cast to unsigned char is replaced by anding with 0xff, which accomplishes the same thing but doesn't rely on char being eight bits. The patch also removes pointer casts, and a few unsigned char pointer variables.
2025-07-09gas alpha sign extension macrosAlan Modra1-25/+5
Use standard sign extend and range checking using unsigned expressions that don't rely on implementation defined right shifts or size of short and int.
2025-07-09gas md_number_to_charsAlan Modra30-187/+159
Calls to md_number_to_chars don't need to cast their value arg (*). Remove those casts. avr_output_property_recode made a call to md_number_to_chars with size of 1. Simplify that. tc-bpf.c md_convert_frag used write_insn_bytes that simply copied input to output. Dispense with that nonsense, and similarly in a couple of other places where md_number_to_chars was called with size 1. *) unless the value arg is an expression that needs a cast, eg. tic54x emit_insn where the shift left could trigger signed overflow UB without a cast.
2025-07-09z8k opcode_entry_typeAlan Modra1-3/+3
z8k opcode_entry_type.func is never used as a function pointer, only as a pointer to a pseudo_typeS. Change it to a void*.
2025-07-09gas various other void* castsAlan Modra20-63/+55
This removes assorted unneeded casts of void* pointers, and casts when passing args to void* parameters or storing to void* pointers. The patch also changes obj-coff.c stack_push to take a void* parameter, and replaces an odd memcpy in tc-metag.c find_insn_templates with a simple assignment.
2025-07-09gas various other const pointer changesAlan Modra16-87/+82
This removes a bunch of casts involving const pointers, in some cases by making variables const pointers so a cast is not needed. In a couple of places the cast hid errors with "&array" written rather than "array", see iq2000_macro_defs and s_pru_align. tc-xgate.c cmp_opcode is changed to be the standard qsort predicate to avoid a function cast.
2025-07-09gas d30v_insn plus other non-const pointersAlan Modra1-12/+12
d30v has a bunch of casts that are only needed due to various types missing a const. Fix that.
2025-07-09gas alloc castsAlan Modra18-39/+31
All of the various memory allocation function return a "void *" pointer, which needs no cast to assign to other pointer types.
2025-07-09gas bfd_put and bfd_get arg castsAlan Modra17-185/+185
bfd_{h_,}put_* and bfd_{h_,}get_* have "void *" pointer params nowadays. We don't need casts on their pointer args. We also don't need to cast values passed to bfd_put.
2025-07-09gas NULL castsAlan Modra69-398/+393
This removes many unnecessary NULL casts. I'm also adding a few arg casts in concat calls, to make the code consistent. Advice from quite a few years ago was that it's better to use the exact type for args corresponding to function ellipses, in case NULL is defined as plain 0. (I think that happened with some early 64-bit systems. Plain NULL ought to be OK nowadays.)
2025-07-09gas s3_FAIL and s7_FAILAlan Modra2-669/+669
s3_FAIL is defined as 0x80000000 which is unsigned, but everywhere it is used it is cast to int. Get rid of that silliness, and likewise for s7_FAIL.
2025-07-09gas more enum castsAlan Modra10-107/+106
Remove more unnecessary enum casts.
2025-07-09gas bfd_reloc_code_real_typeAlan Modra17-91/+78
Enumeration constants are integer types, so there should be no need to cast such constants to int in expressions. (Perhaps some older gccs warned, I checked back to gcc-4.5.) Remove some of those unnecessary casts. Also remove unnecessary casts to bfd_reloc_code_real_type.
2025-07-09gas add_ecoff_symbolAlan Modra1-49/+19
* ecoff.c: Remove unnecessary arg casts in add_ecoff_symbol calls throughout file.
2025-07-09gas frag_varAlan Modra20-93/+52
Many frag_var calls have unnecessary casts on arguments, no doubt from the days when binutils was written for K&R C. (ie. functions were not prototyped so you needed to cast anything that didn't match the expected type after default promotions, as you still do for args matching a function ellipsis.) Remove those casts. * config/tc-alpha.c (s_alpha_comm): Use offset_T for cur_size to avoid need for casts. Remove casts from frag_var args. * config/tc-ia64.c (obj_elf_vms_common): Remove casts from frag_var args. * config/tc-m32r.c (m32r_scomm): Likewise. * config/tc-m68hc11.c (build_jump_insn): Likewise. (build_dbranch_insn): Likewise. * config/tc-m68k.c (md_assemble): Likewise. * config/tc-microblaze.c (microblaze_s_lcomm): Likewise. * config/tc-mmix.c (s_loc): Likewise. * config/tc-ppc.c (ppc_elf_lcomm, ppc_comm): Likewise. * config/tc-score.c (s3_s_score_lcomm): Likewise. * config/tc-score7.c (s7_s_score_lcomm): Likewise. * config/tc-sh.c (sh_cons_align): Likewise. * config/tc-sparc.c (s_reserve, s_common): Likewise. (sparc_cons_align): Likewise. * config/tc-tic4x.c (tic4x_seg_alloc, tic4x_bss): Likewise. * config/tc-tic54x.c (tic54x_bss, tic54x_space): Likewise. (tic54x_usect, tic54x_field): Likewise. * config/tc-tic6x.c (s_tic6x_scomm): Likewise. * config/tc-v850.c (v850_offset, v850_comm): Likewise. * frags.c (frag_align, frag_align_pattern, frag_align_code): Likewise. * gen-sframe.c (output_sframe_row_entry): Likewise. (output_sframe_funcdesc): Likewise. * read.c (s_fill, do_org, s_space, emit_leb128_expr): Likewise. * symbols.c (colon)): Likewise.
2025-07-09gas pointer to int and vice versaAlan Modra4-21/+21
Use "intptr_t" or "uintptr_t" for these conversions, not "long" which is wrong on LLP64 systems, or "size_t" which is better but still not the correct type. * config/tc-alpha.c (emit_ldXu, emit_ldX, emit_uldXu, emit_uldX), (emit_stX, emit_ustX, emit_sextX): Use correct type when converting vlgsize pointer to in. Use "int" rather than "long" for result. * config/tc-ia64.c (generate_unwind_image): Use intptr_t cast when passing personality_routine to frag_var. * config/tc-ppc.c (ppc_frob_symbol <coff>): Use uintptr_t cast when converting symbol pointer to valueT. * config/tc-v850.c (md_assemble): Use intptr_t cast when loading integer opindex.
2025-07-08aarch64: Add support for FEAT_SVE2p2 and FEAT_SME2p2Alice Carlotti8-44/+1559
2025-07-08aarch64: Reorder virtual feature dependenciesAlice Carlotti1-4/+3
This will improve readability when more combinations of "SVE* or SME*" are added.
2025-07-08New Malay translation for bfd/ and new Spanish translation for gas/Nick Clifton1-0/+24208
2025-07-08RISC-V: Fixed mapping symbol for .option norvc directiveNelson Chu2-2/+7
2025-07-08RISC-V: Fixed dis-assembler to set correct xlen from mapping symbolNelson Chu3-5/+5
2025-07-08RISC-V: Fixed that .option push/pop won't recover the xlenNelson Chu2-4/+7
2025-07-08RISC-V: Added testcase to show the current rvc and xlen problemsNelson Chu2-0/+94
2025-07-06NEWS: sframe: mention new semantics for SFrame FDE function start addrIndu Bhagat1-0/+5
The SFrame FDE's function start address is always emitted as follows by GAS and ld: it is the offset of the start PC of the respective function from the FDE field itself. GAS and ld will emit a flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL set to 1 when emitting the field in this encoding. * binutils/NEWS: Announce the change of encoding for SFrame FDE func start addr field. * gas/NEWS: Announce the emission of new flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. * ld/NEWS: Likewise. Relocatable links are now fixed.
2025-07-06bfd: gas: ld: libsframe: adopt new encoding for FDE func start addr fieldIndu Bhagat28-34/+41
This patch convenes a set of changes in bfd, gas, ld, libsframe towards moving to the new encoding for the 'sfde_func_start_address' field in SFrame FDE. First, gas must now mark all SFrame sections with the new flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. gas was already emitting the field in the said encoding. * gas/gen-sframe.c (output_sframe_internal): Emit the flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. Similarly for ld, adopt the new semantics of sfde_func_start_address consistently. This means: - When merging SFrame sections, check that all input SFrame sections have the SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL flag set. If the check fails, ld errors out. - When merging SFrame sections, keep even the in-memory contents of the FDE function start address (buffer passed to libsframe sframe_encoder_write () for writing out) encoded in the new semantics. While it is, in theory, possible that instead of doing this change here, we adjust the value of sfde_func_start_address at the final write (sframe_encoder_write) time. But latter is not favorable for maintenanance and may be generally confusing for developers. - When creating SFrame for PLT entries, emit flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. include/ * sframe-api.h (SFRAME_F_LD_MUSTHAVE_FLAGS): New definition. bfd/ * elf-sframe.c (_bfd_elf_merge_section_sframe): Check for flag combinatation SFRAME_F_LD_MUSTHAVE_FLAGS set for all input and output SFrame sections. If not, error out. Also, adopt the new semantics of function start address encoding. * bfd/elfxx-x86.c (_bfd_x86_elf_create_sframe_plt): Emit flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. Next, for dumping SFrame sections, now that we are emitting the same encoding in GAS, non-relocatable and relocatable SFrame links, it is the time to set relocate to TRUE in debug_displays[]. binutils/ * dwarf.c (struct dwarf_section_display): Allow sframe sections to now be relocated. gas/testsuite/ * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-aarch64-pac-ab-key-1.d: Update the test. Relocatable SFrame sections now display non-zero value (appropriate function start address). Now, as the SFrame sections on-disk and in-memory use the new semantics of sfde_func_start_address encoding (i.e., function start address is the offset from the sfde_func_start_address field to the start PC), the calculation to make it human readable (i.e., relatable to the addresses in .text sections) needs adjustment. libsframe/ * sframe-dump.c (dump_sframe_func_with_fres): Adjust the function start address for dumping. Now that both the emission of the new encoding, and the relocation of sections before dumping them is in place, it is time to adjust the testcases. gas/testsuite/ * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-aarch64-1.d: Update expected output to include SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL instead of NONE. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-aarch64-2.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-aarch64-3.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-aarch64-4.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-1.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-10.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-11.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-2.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-3.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-4.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-5.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-6.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-7.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-8.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-common-9.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-1.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-2.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-empty-1.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-empty-2.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-empty-3.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/cfi-sframe-x86_64-empty-4.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/common-empty-1.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/common-empty-2.d: Likewise. * gas/cfi-sframe/common-empty-3.d: Likewise. * gas/scfi/x86_64/scfi-cfi-sections-1.d: Likewise. * gas/scfi/x86_64/scfi-dyn-stack-1.d: Likewise. ld/testsuite/ * ld-aarch64/sframe-simple-1.d: Update expected output to include SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL. * ld-x86-64/sframe-ibt-plt-1.d: Likewise. * ld-x86-64/sframe-plt-1.d: Likewise. * ld-x86-64/sframe-pltgot-1.d: Likewise. * ld-x86-64/sframe-pltgot-2.d: Likewise. * ld-x86-64/sframe-simple-1.d: Likewise. Naturally, the change of semantics for 'SFrame FDE function start address' has consequences on the implementation in libsframe. As per the new semantics: - Function start address in the SFrame FDE (sfde_func_start_address) is an offset from the FDE function start address field to the start PC of the associated function. Note that, the libsframe library brings the SFrame section contents into its own memory to create a sframe_decoder_ctx object via sframe_decode (). Many internal and user-interfacing APIs then may use sframe_decoder_ctx object to interact and fulfill the work. In context of changing semantics for sfde_func_start_address, following relevant examples may help understand the impact: - sframe_find_fre () finds a the SFrame stack trace data (SFrame FRE) given a lookup offset (offset of lookup_pc from the start of SFrame section). Now that the sfde_func_start_address includes the distance from the sfde_func_start_address field to the start of SFrame section itself, the comparison checks of sfde_func_start_address with the incoming lookup offset need adjustment. - Some internal functions (sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr_internal () finds SFrame FDE by using binary seach comparing sfde_func_start_address fields, etc.) need adjustments. - sframe_encoder_write () sorts the SFrame FDEs before writing out the SFrame data. Sorting of SFrame FDE via the internal function sframe_sort_funcdesc() needs adjustments: the new encoding of sfde_func_start_address means the distances are not from the same anchor, so cannot be sorted directly. This patch takes the approach of adding a new internal function: - sframe_decoder_get_secrel_func_start_addr (): This function returns the offset of the start PC of the function from the start of SFrame section, i.e., it gives a section-relative offset. As the sframe_decoder_get_secrel_func_start_addr () API needs the value of the function index in the FDE list, another internal API needs sframe_fre_check_range_p () adjustments too. Sorting the FDEs (via sframe_sort_funcdesc ()) is done by first bringing all offsets in sfde_func_start_address relative to start of SFrame section, followed by sorting, and then readjusting the offsets accroding to the new position in the FDE list. libsframe/ * sframe.c (sframe_decoder_get_secrel_func_start_addr): New static function. (sframe_fre_check_range_p): Adjust the interface a bit. (sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr_internal): Use sframe_decoder_get_secrel_func_start_addr () when comparing sfde_func_start_address with user input offset. (sframe_find_fre): Adopt the new semantics. (sframe_sort_funcdesc): Likewise. For the libsframe testsuite, use the new encoding for FDE func start addr: distance between the FDE sfde_func_start_address field and the start PC of the function itself. Use SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL flag, though the sframe_encode () interface in libsframe applies no sanity checks for the encoding itself. libsframe/testsuite/ * libsframe.find/findfre-1.c: Adjust to use the new SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL specific encoding. * libsframe.find/findfunc-1.c: Likewise. * libsframe.find/plt-findfre-1.c: Likewise. * libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.decode/DATA2: Update data file due to usage of new SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL flag. * libsframe/testsuite/libsframe.encode/encode-1.c: Use flag SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL.
2025-07-06MIPS/testsuite: Expand GAS and LD HI/LO relocation coverageMaciej W. Rozycki11-5/+5979
Expand test coverage for HI/LO relocation handling and add conventional MIPS and microMIPS GAS tests as well as conventional MIPS, microMIPS, and MIPS16e2 LD tests, covering R_MIPS_HI16, R_MIPS_LO16, R_MIPS16_HI16, R_MIPS16_LO16, R_MICROMIPS_HI16, and R_MICROMIPS_LO16 relocations, as well as 64-bit R_MIPS_HIGHEST, R_MIPS_HIGHER, R_MICROMIPS_HIGHEST, and R_MICROMIPS_HIGHER relocations. Modify the linker script so as to retain the `.MIPS.abiflags' section so as to disassemble MIPS16e2 code correctly, as MIPS16e2 ASE information is only carried in that section and not in ELF file header's `e_flags'. MIPS16e2 and microMIPS code requires at least the MIPS32r2 ISA (or the MIPS64r2 one for the n32 and n64 ABIs), which is incompatible with the `mips:5900' linker output architecture and causes link failures such as: ./ld-new: tmpdir/mips-hilo1.o: linking mips:isa32r2 module with previous mips:5900 modules ./ld-new: failed to merge target specific data of file tmpdir/mips-hilo1.o Therefore exclude `mips*el-ps2-elf*' targets from microMIPS and MIPS16e2 LD testing.
2025-07-06MIPS/testsuite: Fix %hi usage across MIPS16 GAS/LD testsMaciej W. Rozycki6-16/+16
Fix a couple of places in MIPS GAS and LD R_MIPS16_HI16/R_MIPS16_LO16 relocation tests where the %hi operator has been incorrectly used, but the %lo operator is expected to complement the preceding %hi operation.
2025-07-06MIPS/GAS/testsuite: Cover microMIPS HI/LO relocation pairingMaciej W. Rozycki4-0/+46
Add a GAS test case for R_MICROMIPS_HI16/R_MICROMIPS_LO16 REL relocation pairing, analogous to one for R_MIPS16_HI16/R_MIPS16_LO16 relocations.
2025-07-06MIPS/GAS/testsuite: Remove useless whitespace from mips16-hilo-match testMaciej W. Rozycki1-4/+1
Remove trailing whitespace and extraneous new-line characters from mips16-hilo-match.d test case.
2025-07-06gas pending_bundle_size assertAlan Modra1-1/+1
oss-fuzz managed to trigger this assert, by assembling directives in the absolute section. Avoid this using similar code to that in frags.c:frag_new (commit 2dc2dfa7d7a5).
2025-07-06gas bundle supportAlan Modra1-13/+13
Use valueT when calculating sizes, since fr_fix is that type. unsigned int was fine for sane code, but can lose to fuzzed input.
2025-07-06ubsan: gas resolve_symbol_valueAlan Modra1-2/+2
Avoid signed overflow when resolving constant +/- constant.
2025-07-04gas: introduce .errif and .warnifJan Beulich8-0/+112
Rather than having people resort to indirect means to issue a certain kind of diagnostic conditionally upon an expression which can (or should) only be evaluated when all sections were sized and all symbols had their final values established, provide directives to directly achieve this.
2025-07-04gas: add a means to programmatically determine the assembler versionJan Beulich10-2/+115
It has been more than once that I would have wanted to have a way to know the gas version in assembly sources, perhaps for use with .if. Add such a pre-defined symbol, introducing the common pattern GAS(<symbol>) for any such symbols. The use of parentheses is to keep the risk of collisions with users' symbols as low as possible. (Possible future arch-specific symbols may want to use GAS(<arch>:<symbol>).) Similarly permit determining whether the assembler is a released version. The exact value probably isn't of much use, it's more the defined-ness that one might care about. Yet the symbol needs to have some value anyway. While by default pre-defined symbols won't be emitted to the symbol table, introduce -emit-local-absolute to allow requesting this. Re- purpose flag_strip_local_absolute to become tristate, with a negative value indicating to also emit pre-defined symbols.
2025-07-04cris/testsuite: don't use --em=Jan Beulich82-82/+82
Using such abbreviations is fine when written on an interactive command line by a human. In scripts and alike, doing so risks colliding with later option additions, as is about to occur for gas: Shortly there'll be --emit-local-absolute.
2025-06-26Updated Spanish translations for opcodes and gasNick Clifton1-8851/+9631
2025-06-25aarch64: Add supports for FEAT_PoPS feature and DC instructions.Srinath Parvathaneni7-0/+53
This patch add support for FEAT_PoPS feature which can be enabled through +pops command line flag. This patch also adds support for following DC instructions and the spec can be found here [1]. 1. "dc cigdvaps" enabled on passing +memtag+pops command line flags. 2. "dc civaps" enabled on passing +pops command line flag. [1]: https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0601/2025-03/AArch64-Instructions?lang=en
2025-06-25readelf: invalid error message triggered when last tag is an empty stringMatthieu Longo2-2/+1
Disclaimer: this issue cannot occur with Object Attributes v1 (OAv1) while using the GNU binutils because a value of '\0' (empty string) for a tag with a string value is considered as the default value for the attribute, and consequently is eliminated by gas from the output object file during the serialization. An empty string is a valid value for a NTBS tag in both OAv1 and OAv2 [1] cases. However, contrarily to OAv1, a OAv2 subsection can be required and so, tags in this subsection might have to be present even if the value is the default. To comply with this requirement, the OAv2 serializer won't drop the default values. In the case where a NTBS tag has the value '\0' and is last in the object attributes section, the current code in readelf used for dumping the object attributes incorrectly detects an overflow, and prints out an error message for a corrupted string tag. This patch fixes the detection of the overflow so that it now accept an empty string in the last tag of the object attributes section. It also fixes the previous tests for the empty NTBS case and the non-null terminated string one. The fix was also tested in the context of OAv2's patch series [1] where the issue was originally detected. No regression was found. [1]: https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/20250509151319.88725-1-matthieu .longo@arm.com/
2025-06-25arm testsuite: add two corner cases for EABI string attributesMatthieu Longo4-0/+48
The current testsuite for gas/readelf lacked two tests for EABI build attributes: - one when the final attribute is an empty string. - one when the final attribute is a string missing the NULL terminator. Those two issues cannot occur with Object Attributes v1 (OAv1) sections created by the GNU binutils. Indeed a value of '\0' (empty string) for a tag with a string value is considered as the default value for the attribute, and consequently is eliminated by Gas from the output object file during the serialization. However, readelf should be able to process correctly files of an unknown origin that could contain those two use cases. This patch adds the two tests mentioned above. The first one is marked as XFAIL because the empty string is not processed correctly by readelf when it is in the last position. The second one passes, but simply print out "[...]" without mentioning that the NTBS is corrupted. A following patch will fix the bug in readelf, and will amend the newly introduced tests.
2025-06-25RISC-V: Add Profiles RVA/B23S64 support.Jiawei2-0/+12
This patch adds support for the RISC-V Profiles RVA23S64 and RVB23S64. Version log: Fix wrong test for rvb23s. bfd/ChangeLog: * elfxx-riscv.c: New Profiles. gas/ChangeLog: * testsuite/gas/riscv/attribute-rva23s.d: New test. * testsuite/gas/riscv/attribute-rvb23s.d: New test.
2025-06-24gas/doc: -v / -version / --version / --verboseJan Beulich1-2/+4
Split -v from -version/--version. They aren't the same; -v long form is --verbose, which so far wasn't mentioned at all.