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authorAlex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>2020-09-08 14:13:45 +0100
committerAlex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>2020-09-08 14:14:11 +0100
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aarch64: Add base support for Armv8-R
This patch adds the basic infrastructure needed to support Armv8-R in AArch64 binutils: new command-line flags, new feature bits, a new BFD architecture, and support for differentiating between architecture variants in the disassembler. The new command-line options added by this patch are -march=armv8-r in GAS and -m aarch64:armv8-r in objdump. The disassembler support is necessary since Armv8-R AArch64 introduces a system register (VSCTLR_EL2) which shares an encoding with a different system register (TTBR0_EL2) in Armv8-A. This also allows us to use the correct preferred disassembly for the new DFB alias introduced in Armv8-R. bfd/ChangeLog: 2020-09-08 Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com> * archures.c (bfd_mach_aarch64_8R): New. * bfd-in2.h: Regenerate. * cpu-aarch64.c (bfd_aarch64_arch_v8_r): New. (bfd_aarch64_arch_ilp32): Update tail pointer. gas/ChangeLog: 2020-09-08 Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com> * config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_archs): Add armv8-r. * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Document -march=armv8-r. include/ChangeLog: 2020-09-08 Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com> * opcode/aarch64.h (AARCH64_FEATURE_V8_A): New. (AARCH64_FEATURE_V8_R): New. (AARCH64_ARCH_V8): Include new A-profile feature bit. (AARCH64_ARCH_V8_R): New. opcodes/ChangeLog: 2020-09-08 Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com> * aarch64-dis.c (arch_variant): New. (determine_disassembling_preference): Disassemble according to arch variant. (select_aarch64_variant): New. (print_insn_aarch64): Set feature set.
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-rw-r--r--gas/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--gas/config/tc-aarch64.c1
-rw-r--r--gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi2
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 117f7e0..1c5929d 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-09-08 Alex Coplan <alex.coplan@arm.com>
+
+ * config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_archs): Add armv8-r.
+ * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Document -march=armv8-r.
+
2020-09-07 Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
* dwarf2dbg.c (add_line_strp): New function.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
index db5edcb..effa976 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
@@ -8997,6 +8997,7 @@ static const struct aarch64_arch_option_table aarch64_archs[] = {
{"armv8.4-a", AARCH64_ARCH_V8_4},
{"armv8.5-a", AARCH64_ARCH_V8_5},
{"armv8.6-a", AARCH64_ARCH_V8_6},
+ {"armv8-r", AARCH64_ARCH_V8_R},
{NULL, AARCH64_ARCH_NONE}
};
diff --git a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
index 86b6efc..89725a7 100644
--- a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
+++ b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ issue an error message if an attempt is made to assemble an
instruction which will not execute on the target architecture. The
following architecture names are recognized: @code{armv8-a},
@code{armv8.1-a}, @code{armv8.2-a}, @code{armv8.3-a}, @code{armv8.4-a}
-@code{armv8.5-a}, and @code{armv8.6-a}.
+@code{armv8.5-a}, @code{armv8.6-a}, and @code{armv8-r}.
If both @option{-mcpu} and @option{-march} are specified, the
assembler will use the setting for @option{-mcpu}. If neither are