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From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Warn .insn instruction with length > 15 bytes
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 18:05:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4c4a7fa-5c9d-4e4b-a998-c3c34a036659@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOroVHznT1dURbbAbTCWGGw9V28fHBie_4wBPDDH0gRXjw@mail.gmail.com>

On 06.02.2024 17:28, H.J. Lu wrote:
> With as_bad, assembler will continue to assemble, just not generate
> an object file.   We ran into this with APX.  Not everyone checks
> assembler warnings closely.  It led to mysterious crashes.   I am
> not against it if someone else implements an assembler option to
> turn this error into a warning.

But it should be the other way around: The compiler could pass an
option to promote the (default) warning to an error. And if you
don#t pay attention to warning for assembly files, you could pass
the same option as well. Without harming anyone else with anything
that has worked before.

Jan

  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-06 17:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-05 20:00 H.J. Lu
2024-02-06  8:19 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-06 11:36   ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-06 11:41     ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-06 12:26       ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-06 14:43         ` Michael Matz
2024-02-06 14:49           ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-06 15:04             ` Michael Matz
2024-02-06 15:34               ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-06 15:48                 ` Michael Matz
2024-02-06 16:28                   ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-06 17:05                     ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2024-02-06 18:06                       ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-07  7:51                         ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-07 15:24                           ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-07 15:32                             ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-07 16:53                               ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-07 16:59                                 ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-07 17:03                                   ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-08  4:09                                     ` Jiang, Haochen
2024-02-08  4:47                                       ` Hongyu Wang
2024-02-08  8:15                                         ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-08  8:23                                     ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-08 11:38                                       ` H.J. Lu
2024-02-08  6:26                     ` Sunil Pandey
2024-02-08  6:41                   ` Cui, Lili
2024-02-08  8:18                     ` Jan Beulich
2024-02-08 11:31                       ` H.J. Lu

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