binutils-gdb/ld/testsuite/ld-arm/fdpic-shared-m.d
Andrew Burgess 8cb6e17571 opcodes/arm: use '@' consistently for the comment character
Looking at the ARM disassembler output, every comment seems to start
with a ';' character, so I assumed this was the correct character to
start an assembler comment.

I then spotted a couple of places where there was no ';', but instead,
just a '@' character.  I thought that this was a case of a missing
';', and proposed a patch to add the missing ';' characters.

Turns out I was wrong, '@' is actually the ARM assembler comment
character, while ';' is the statement separator.  Thus this:

    nop    ;@ comment

is two statements, the first is the 'nop' instruction, while the
second contains no instructions, just the '@ comment' comment text.

This:

    nop    @ comment

is a single 'nop' instruction followed by a comment.  And finally,
this:

    nop    ; comment

is two statements, the first contains the 'nop' instruction, while the
second contains the instruction 'comment', which obviously isn't
actually an instruction at all.

Why this matters is that, in the next commit, I would like to add
libopcodes syntax styling support for ARM.

The question then is how should the disassembler style the three cases
above?

As '@' is the actual comment start character then clearly the '@' and
anything after it can be styled as a comment.  But what about ';' in
the second example?  Style as text?  Style as a comment?

And the third example is even harder, what about the 'comment' text?
Style as an instruction mnemonic?  Style as text?  Style as a comment?

I think the only sensible answer is to move the disassembler to use
'@' consistently as its comment character, and remove all the uses of
';'.

Then, in the next commit, it's obvious what to do.

There's obviously a *lot* of tests that get updated by this commit,
the only actual code changes are in opcodes/arm-dis.c.
2022-11-01 09:32:13 +00:00

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Makefile

tmpdir/fdpic-shared.so: file format elf32-(little|big)arm
architecture: arm.*, flags 0x00000150:
HAS_SYMS, DYNAMIC, D_PAGED
start address 0x.*
Disassembly of section .plt:
.* <.plt>:
.*: f8df c00c ldr.w ip, \[pc, #12\] @ .* <.plt\+0x10>
.*: eb0c 0c09 add.w ip, ip, r9
.*: f8dc 9004 ldr.w r9, \[ip, #4\]
.*: f8dc f000 ldr.w pc, \[ip\]
.*: 0000000c .word 0x0000000c
.*: 00000000 .word 0x00000000
.*: f85f c008 ldr.w ip, \[pc, #-8\] @ .* <.plt\+0x14>
.*: f84d cd04 str.w ip, \[sp, #-4\]!
.*: f8d9 c004 ldr.w ip, \[r9, #4\]
.*: f8d9 f000 ldr.w pc, \[r9\]
Disassembly of section .text:
.* <my_shared_func1>:
.*: 4770 bx lr
.*: bf00 nop
.* <my_shared_func3>:
.*: f04f 0000 mov.w r0, #0
.*: 4770 bx lr
.*: bf00 nop
.* <my_shared_func2>:
.*: b510 push {r4, lr}
.*: 464c mov r4, r9
.*: f7ff ffe2 bl .* <.plt>
.*: 46a1 mov r9, r4
.*: bd10 pop {r4, pc}