[PATCH] aarch64: Fix the documentation on :pg_hi21:
Yufeng Zhang
Yufeng.Zhang@arm.com
Thu May 29 12:19:00 GMT 2014
Hi Martin,
On 05/29/14 13:00, Martin Storsjo wrote:
> The syntax described, including a leading '#', was not supported
> in practice. (For :lo12: it is optional.)
I believe this is an issue in the parser; '#' should be optional in
either case.
It looks like gas/config/tc-aarch64.c:parse_adrp () is missing the
skip_past_char (&p, '#') at its beginning; see parse_half () for an example.
Yufeng
> ---
> gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi | 10 +++++-----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
> index cce4f61..1f4ce4c 100644
> --- a/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
> +++ b/gas/doc/c-aarch64.texi
> @@ -186,24 +186,24 @@ For example to load the 48-bit absolute address of @var{foo} into x0:
> @cindex ADRP, ADD, LDR/STR group relocations, AArch64
> Relocations for @samp{ADRP}, and @samp{ADD}, @samp{LDR} or @samp{STR}
> instructions can be generated by prefixing the label with
> -@samp{#:pg_hi21:} and @samp{#:lo12:} respectively.
> +@samp{:pg_hi21:} and @samp{#:lo12:} respectively.
>
> For example to use 33-bit (+/-4GB) pc-relative addressing to
> load the address of @var{foo} into x0:
>
> @smallexample
> - adrp x0, #:pg_hi21:foo
> + adrp x0, :pg_hi21:foo
> add x0, x0, #:lo12:foo
> @end smallexample
>
> Or to load the value of @var{foo} into x0:
>
> @smallexample
> - adrp x0, #:pg_hi21:foo
> + adrp x0, :pg_hi21:foo
> ldr x0, [x0, #:lo12:foo]
> @end smallexample
>
> -Note that @samp{#:pg_hi21:} is optional.
> +Note that @samp{:pg_hi21:} is optional.
>
> @smallexample
> adrp x0, foo
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ Note that @samp{#:pg_hi21:} is optional.
> is equivalent to
>
> @smallexample
> - adrp x0, #:pg_hi21:foo
> + adrp x0, :pg_hi21:foo
> @end smallexample
>
> @node AArch64 Floating Point
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