[PATCH] RISC-V: Remove RV32EF conflict

Kito Cheng kito.cheng@sifive.com
Wed Oct 19 13:23:17 GMT 2022


The spec has been updated for a while, and this change only removes the
limitation from the old spec, so LGTM.

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 9:14 PM Tsukasa OI <research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com>
wrote:

> Despite that the RISC-V ISA Manual version 2.2 prohibited "RV32EF", later
> versions beginning with the version 20190608-Base-Ratified removed this
> restriction.  Because the 'E' extension is still a draft, the author chose
> to *just* remove the conflict (not checking the ISA version).
>
> Note that, because RV32E is only used with a soft-float calling convention,
> there's no valid official ABI for RV32EF.  It means, even if we can
> assemble
> a program with -march=rv32ef -mabi=ilp32e, floating-point registers are
> kept
> in an unmanaged state (outside ABI management).
>
> The purpose of this commit is to suppress unnecessary errors while parsing
> an ISA string and/or disassembling, not to allow hard-float with RVE.
>
> bfd/ChangeLog:
>
>         * elfxx-riscv.c (riscv_parse_check_conflicts): Accept RV32EF
>         because only older specifications disallowed it.
>
> gas/ChangeLog:
>
>         * testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d: Remove as not directly
>         prohibited.
>         * testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l: Likewise.
> ---
>  bfd/elfxx-riscv.c                           | 7 -------
>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d | 3 ---
>  gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l | 2 --
>  3 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d
>  delete mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l
>
> diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c b/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
> index c89b1e53e92..334a63f0873 100644
> --- a/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
> +++ b/bfd/elfxx-riscv.c
> @@ -1870,13 +1870,6 @@ riscv_parse_check_conflicts (riscv_parse_subset_t
> *rps)
>        rps->error_handler (_("rv%d does not support the `q' extension"),
> xlen);
>        no_conflict = false;
>      }
> -  if (riscv_lookup_subset (rps->subset_list, "e", &subset)
> -      && riscv_lookup_subset (rps->subset_list, "f", &subset))
> -    {
> -      rps->error_handler
> -        (_("rv32e does not support the `f' extension"));
> -      no_conflict = false;
> -    }
>    if (riscv_lookup_subset (rps->subset_list, "zfinx", &subset)
>        && riscv_lookup_subset (rps->subset_list, "f", &subset))
>      {
> diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d
> b/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d
> deleted file mode 100644
> index d7b51c3c17d..00000000000
> --- a/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.d
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
> -#as: -march=rv32ef
> -#source: empty.s
> -#error_output: march-fail-rv32ef.l
> diff --git a/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l
> b/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l
> deleted file mode 100644
> index e6d93f28fa5..00000000000
> --- a/gas/testsuite/gas/riscv/march-fail-rv32ef.l
> +++ /dev/null
> @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
> -.*Assembler messages:
> -.*Error: .*rv32e does not support the `f' extension
>
> base-commit: 2b06e59de0675c2cb526af2de6803dae29703d15
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>


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