[PATCH 0/3] x86: improve handling of equates to registers

[H.J. Lu]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 6:51 AM Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>
> Fuzzed input led to Alan addressing PR gas/28977 in, I think, a
> sub-optimal way. An alternative is proposed in patch 1 alongside
> the intention to then revert the original workaround.
>
> In the course of discussing things with Alan he pointed out another
> problematic construct, which patch 2 makes work. Variants of that
> involving forward references, which are e.g. not resolvable at the
> time an insn using it is being processed, would cause fatal and/or
> internal errors, which patch 3 "softens" to an ordinary error.
>
> 1: don't attempt to resolve equates and alike from i386_parse_name()
> 2: improve resolution of register equates
> 3: reject relocations involving registers
>

OK to all.

Thanks.

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H.J.