[patch] Arm SVC instruction

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Jan 27 17:07:00 GMT 2006


Hi Paul,

> As part of their unified assembly language Arm changed the name of the SWI 
> instruction to SVC (Supervisor Call). It's exactly the same instruction, just 
> with a new name.

In which case shouldn't the disassembler default to using the SVC 
mnemonic rather than the SWI mnemonic ?

> 2006-01-27  Paul Brook  <paul@codesourcery.com>
> gas/
> 	* config/tc-arm.c (insns): Add "svc".
> gas/testsuite/
> 	* gas/arm/svc.d: New test.
> 	* gas/arm/svc.s: New test.

Approved - please apply - but you may want to update opcodes/arm-dis.c.

Cheers
   Nick




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