[PATCH] ARM: Closing in on unified assembly syntax

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Mon May 2 19:04:00 GMT 2005


On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:58:08AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> 
> > Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> writes:
> >
> >>  - Conditional suffixes are accepted, but ignored, on all Thumb
> >>    instructions.
> >
> > Maybe you are implementing to some standard that requires this, but it
> > looks decidedly odd to me.  I would expect that a conditional suffix
> > in Thumb mode should cause an error.
> 
> It's an intermediate point, useful in itself as it allows correctly
> written Thumb-2 code to assemble.  The next stage is to validate these
> conditional suffixes against preceding IT instructions, which actually
> cause conditional execution.  Here's an example -

To clarify: this only applies when the assembler is in Thumb-2 mode, or
it applies even in classic Thumb mode?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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