Two of the instructions added by the `+d128' architectural extension
add the flexibility to have two optional operands. Prior to the
addition of the `tlbip' and `sysp' instructions, no mnemonic allowed
more than one such optional operand.
With `tlbip' as an example, some TLBIP instruction names do not allow
for any optional operands, while others allow for both to be optional.
In the latter case, it is possible that either the second operand
alone is omitted or both operands are omitted.
Therefore, a considerable degree of flexibility needed to be added to
the way operands were parsed. It was, however, possible to achieve
this with relatively few changes to existing code.
it is noteworthy that opcode flags specifying the optional operand
number are non-orthogonal. For example, we have:
#define F_OPD1_OPT (2 << 12) : 0b10 << 12
#define F_OPD2_OPT (3 << 12) : 0b11 << 12
such that by virtue of the observation that
(F_OPD1_OPT | F_OPD2_OPT) == F_OPD2_OPT
it is impossible to mark both operands 1 and 2 as optional for an
instruction and it is assumed that a maximum of 1 operand can ever be
optional. This is not overly-problematic given that, for optional
pairs, the second optional operand is always found immediately after
the first. Thus, it suffices for us to flag that there is a second
optional operand. With this fact, we can infer its position in the
mnemonic from the position of the first (e.g. if the second operand in
the mnemonic is optional, we know the third is too). We therefore
define the `F_OPD_PAIR_OPT' flag and calculate its position in the
mnemonic from the value encoded by the `F_OPD<n>_OPT' flag.
Another observation is that there is a tight coupling between default
values assigned to the two registers when one (or both) are omitted
from the mnemonic. Namely, if Xt1 has a value of 0x1f (the zero
register is specified), Xt2 defaults to the same value, otherwise Xt2
will be assigned Xt + 1. This meant that where you have default value
validation, in checking the second optional operand's value, it is
also necessary to look at the value assigned to the
previously-processed operand value before deciding its validity. Thus
`process_omitted_operand' needs not only access to its `operand'
argument, but also to the global `inst' struct.
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README for GAS
A number of things have changed since version 1 and the wonderful
world of gas looks very different. There's still a lot of irrelevant
garbage lying around that will be cleaned up in time. Documentation
is scarce, as are logs of the changes made since the last gas release.
My apologies, and I'll try to get something useful.
Unpacking and Installation - Summary
====================================
See ../binutils/README.
To build just the assembler, make the target all-gas.
Documentation
=============
The GAS release includes texinfo source for its manual, which can be processed
into `info' or `dvi' forms.
The DVI form is suitable for printing or displaying; the commands for doing
this vary from system to system. On many systems, `lpr -d' will print a DVI
file. On others, you may need to run a program such as `dvips' to convert the
DVI file into a form your system can print.
If you wish to build the DVI file, you will need to have TeX installed on your
system. You can rebuild it by typing:
cd gas/doc
make as.dvi
The Info form is viewable with the GNU Emacs `info' subsystem, or the
stand-alone `info' program, available as part of the GNU Texinfo distribution.
To build the info files, you will need the `makeinfo' program. Type:
cd gas/doc
make info
Specifying names for hosts and targets
======================================
The specifications used for hosts and targets in the `configure'
script are based on a three-part naming scheme, but some short
predefined aliases are also supported. The full naming scheme encodes
three pieces of information in the following pattern:
ARCHITECTURE-VENDOR-OS
For example, you can use the alias `sun4' as a HOST argument or in a
`--target=TARGET' option. The equivalent full name is
`sparc-sun-sunos4'.
The `configure' script accompanying GAS does not provide any query
facility to list all supported host and target names or aliases.
`configure' calls the Bourne shell script `config.sub' to map
abbreviations to full names; you can read the script, if you wish, or
you can use it to test your guesses on abbreviations--for example:
% sh config.sub i386v
i386-unknown-sysv
% sh config.sub i786v
Invalid configuration `i786v': machine `i786v' not recognized
`configure' options
===================
Here is a summary of the `configure' options and arguments that are
most often useful for building GAS. `configure' also has several other
options not listed here.
configure [--help]
[--prefix=DIR]
[--srcdir=PATH]
[--host=HOST]
[--target=TARGET]
[--with-OPTION]
[--enable-OPTION]
You may introduce options with a single `-' rather than `--' if you
prefer; but you may abbreviate option names if you use `--'.
`--help'
Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
`-prefix=DIR'
Configure the source to install programs and files under directory
`DIR'.
`--srcdir=PATH'
Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
`configure' can determine that directory automatically.
`--host=HOST'
Configure GAS to run on the specified HOST. Normally the
configure script can figure this out automatically.
There is no convenient way to generate a list of all available
hosts.
`--target=TARGET'
Configure GAS for cross-assembling programs for the specified
TARGET. Without this option, GAS is configured to assemble .o files
that run on the same machine (HOST) as GAS itself.
There is no convenient way to generate a list of all available
targets.
`--enable-OPTION'
These flags tell the program or library being configured to
configure itself differently from the default for the specified
host/target combination. See below for a list of `--enable'
options recognized in the gas distribution.
`configure' accepts other options, for compatibility with configuring
other GNU tools recursively; but these are the only options that affect
GAS or its supporting libraries.
The `--enable' options recognized by software in the gas distribution are:
`--enable-targets=...'
This causes one or more specified configurations to be added to those for
which BFD support is compiled. Currently gas cannot use any format other
than its compiled-in default, so this option is not very useful.
`--enable-bfd-assembler'
This causes the assembler to use the new code being merged into it to use
BFD data structures internally, and use BFD for writing object files.
For most targets, this isn't supported yet. For most targets where it has
been done, it's already the default. So generally you won't need to use
this option.
Compiler Support Hacks
======================
On a few targets, the assembler has been modified to support a feature
that is potentially useful when assembling compiler output, but which
may confuse assembly language programmers. If assembler encounters a
.word pseudo-op of the form symbol1-symbol2 (the difference of two
symbols), and the difference of those two symbols will not fit in 16
bits, the assembler will create a branch around a long jump to
symbol1, and insert this into the output directly before the next
label: The .word will (instead of containing garbage, or giving an
error message) contain (the address of the long jump)-symbol2. This
allows the assembler to assemble jump tables that jump to locations
very far away into code that works properly. If the next label is
more than 32K away from the .word, you lose (silently); RMS claims
this will never happen. If the -K option is given, you will get a
warning message when this happens.
REPORTING BUGS IN GAS
=====================
Bugs in gas should be reported to:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/
See ../binutils/README for what we need in a bug report.
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