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| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/NEWS | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | binutils/doc/binutils.texi | 5 |
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diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index 8120850..8f139a5 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2018-05-15 Tamar Christina <tamar.christina@arm.com> + + PR binutils/21446 + * doc/binutils.texi (-M): Document AArch64 options. + * NEWS: Document notes and warnings. + 2018-05-15 Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> * testsuite/lib/binutils-common.exp (is_elf_format): Add chorus, diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index da841de..d90d889 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ * Add support for disassembling netronome Flow Processor (NFP) firmware files. +* The AArch64 port now supports showing disassembly notes which are emitted + when inconsistencies are found with the instruction that may result in the + instruction being invalid. These can be turned on with the option -M notes + to objdump. + +* The AArch64 port now emits warnings when a combination of an instruction and + a named register could be invalid. + Changes in 2.30: * Add --debug-dump=links option to readelf and --dwarf=links option to objdump diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi index 3a32cc4..e4d32b6 100644 --- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi @@ -2342,6 +2342,11 @@ using the switch @option{--disassembler-options=force-thumb}. This can be useful when attempting to disassemble thumb code produced by other compilers. +For AArch64 targets this switch can be used to set whether instructions are +disassembled as the most general instruction using the @option{-M no-aliases} +option or whether instruction notes should be generated as comments in the +disasssembly using @option{-M notes}. + For the x86, some of the options duplicate functions of the @option{-m} switch, but allow finer grained control. Multiple selections from the following may be specified as a comma separated string. |