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[PATCH][AArch64][gas] Set the minimum alignment on code segments.
- From: Matthew Wahab <matthew dot wahab at arm dot com>
- To: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 11:30:14 +0000
- Subject: [PATCH][AArch64][gas] Set the minimum alignment on code segments.
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On AArch64, gas doesn't set the minimum alignment for code segments
making it possible for a segment to become misaligned during a link. It
is also inconsistent with the ABI (4.3.5: Section Alignment).
This patch sets the minimum alignment for a section to 4 bytes, if the
section contains an instruction.
A similar issue in the ARM backend has already been fixed
(https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12931).
Tested aarch64-none-linux-gnu and aarch64-none-elf with check-gas,
check-ld, check-binutils.
Ok for trunk?
Matthew
gas/
2015-03-05 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
* config/tc-aarch64.c (mapping_state): Set minimum alignment for
code sections.
gas/testsuite
2015-03-05 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
* gas/aarch64/codealign.d: Add test for code section alignment.
* gas/aarch64/codealign.s: New file.
diff --git a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
index 9179fc6..77701c6 100644
--- a/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-aarch64.c
@@ -1478,7 +1478,14 @@ mapping_state (enum mstate state)
/* The mapping symbol has already been emitted.
There is nothing else to do. */
return;
- else if (TRANSITION (MAP_UNDEFINED, MAP_DATA))
+
+ if (state == MAP_INSN)
+ /* AArch64 instructions require 4-byte alignment. When emitting
+ instructions into any section, record the appropriate section
+ alignment. */
+ record_alignment (now_seg, 2);
+
+ if (TRANSITION (MAP_UNDEFINED, MAP_DATA))
/* This case will be evaluated later in the next else. */
return;
else if (TRANSITION (MAP_UNDEFINED, MAP_INSN))
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.d b/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.d
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8e75c87
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.d
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#objdump: --section-headers
+# Minimum code alignment should be set.
+# This test is only valid on ELF based ports.
+#not-target: *-*-*coff *-*-pe *-*-wince *-*-*aout* *-*-netbsd *-*-riscix*
+
+.*: +file format.*aarch64.*
+
+Sections:
+Idx Name Size VMA LMA File off Algn
+ 0 \.text .* .* .* .* 2\*\*2
+ .*CODE.*
+ 1 \.data .* .* .* .* 2\*\*0
+ .*DATA.*
+ 2 \.bss .* .* .* .* 2\*\*0
+.*
+
diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.s b/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.s
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b80a6d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/aarch64/codealign.s
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+.text
+ nop