[PATCH] RISC-V: don't disassemble unrecognized insns as .byte
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@orcam.me.uk
Mon Jan 30 03:33:55 GMT 2023
Hi Nelson,
> 0000000000000000 <.text>:
> 0: 0001 .short 0x0001
> 2: 0001 .2byte 0x1
> 4: 0001 .short 0x0001
> ...
>
> The .<N>byte in assembly will also be treated as data to dump, so
> ideally, dump these unrecognized instructions as .insn is probably
> more reasonable and won't be confused.
I wasn't aware about the RISC-V `.insn' pseudo-op. I think it will make
a lot of sense to use it here then, so I'd be happier with either:
2: 0001 .insn 0x0001
or:
2: 0001 .insn 0x2, 0x1
and analogously for unrecognised instructions comprised of a higher number
of parcels according to the opcode allocation, e.g.:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000000000 <foo> .insn 0x00000000001f
or:
Disassembly of section .text:
0000000000000000 <foo> .insn 0x6, 0x1f
(here in the `--prefix-addresses' format). The single-argument format may
by clearer to the casual eye at the cost of extra leading zeros with some
encodings.
Maciej
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