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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@oracle.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH,RFC 5/9] gas: add new command line option --scfi[=all,none]
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 15:04:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6582d489-7ac5-6c4d-cfc2-8e5ca7e399e4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230920230401.1739139-6-indu.bhagat@oracle.com>

Hi Indu,

> When the command line option --scfi (default is --scfi=all) is passed to
> the GNU assembler, it will synthesize DWARF call frame information (CFI)
> for the assembly.

> Also document the option.

Please could you also add an entry in the gas/NEWS file about this new feature.

> +# ifdef TARGET_USE_SCFI
> +  fprintf (stream, _("\
> +  --scfi=[all,none]	  synthesize DWARF CFI for hand-written asm (not inline)\n\
> +			  (default --scfi=all)\n"));
> +# endif

I was wondering how the code would detect inline assembler.
Presumably it looks for the #NOAPP preprocessor directive ?
Or is the point of the comment in the above delta that the
user should not use this new option in conjunction with actual
compiled code ?  Either way I think that you need to extend
the documentation to include describing what happens when
compiled code and this option are used together.

Also - I have not checked this yet - if this option is enabled
and no CFI statements are generated (or maybe if an incomplete
sequence is generated) - presumably because of badly written
code - will there be an error message generated ?

Cheers
   Nick


  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-28 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-20 23:03 [PATCH,RFC 0/9] SCFI implementation in GNU assembler Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 1/9] gas: dw2gencfi: minor rejig for cfi_sections_set and all_cfi_sections Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 2/9] gas: dw2gencfi: use all_cfi_sections instead of cfi_sections Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 3/9] gas: dw2gencfi: expose a new cfi_set_last_fde API Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 4/9] gas: dw2gencfi: move some tc_* defines to the header file Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 5/9] gas: add new command line option --scfi[=all,none] Indu Bhagat
2023-09-28 14:04   ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2023-09-30  6:13     ` Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 6/9] gas: dw2gencfi: ignore all .cfi_* directives with --scfi=all Indu Bhagat
2023-09-28 14:10   ` [PATCH, RFC " Nick Clifton
2023-09-30  6:20     ` Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:03 ` [PATCH,RFC 7/9] gas: scfidw2gen: new functionality to prepapre for SCFI Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:04 ` [PATCH,RFC 8/9] gas: synthesize CFI for hand-written asm Indu Bhagat
2023-09-28 14:58   ` Nick Clifton
2023-09-30  6:43     ` Indu Bhagat
2023-09-20 23:04 ` [PATCH,RFC 9/9] gas: testsuite: add a x86_64 testsuite for SCFI Indu Bhagat
2023-09-28 15:01 ` [PATCH,RFC 0/9] SCFI implementation in GNU assembler Nick Clifton
2023-09-30  6:44   ` Indu Bhagat

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