[PATCH 4/6] x86: i386_cons_align() badly affects diagnostics

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Fri Nov 24 09:05:03 GMT 2023


Warning without knowing what's going to follow isn't useful, the more
that appropriate warnings are emitted elsewhere in all cases. Not
updating state (file/line in particular) also isn't helpful, as it's
always the last directive ahead of a construct potentially needing
fiddling with that's "guilty" in that fiddling being suppressed.
---
Maybe the stray diagnostics are the reason why there is that
questionable SEC_CODE check in the function (which for now I'm retaining
there)?

--- a/gas/config/tc-i386.c
+++ b/gas/config/tc-i386.c
@@ -15491,22 +15491,11 @@ i386_cons_align (int ignore ATTRIBUTE_UN
   struct last_insn *last_insn
     = &seg_info(now_seg)->tc_segment_info_data.last_insn;
 
-  if (last_insn->kind != last_insn_directive
-      && (bfd_section_flags (now_seg) & SEC_CODE))
+  if (bfd_section_flags (now_seg) & SEC_CODE)
     {
       last_insn->kind = last_insn_directive;
       last_insn->name = "constant directive";
       last_insn->file = as_where (&last_insn->line);
-      if (lfence_before_ret != lfence_before_ret_none)
-	{
-	  if (lfence_before_indirect_branch != lfence_branch_none)
-	    as_warn (_("constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret "
-		       "and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch"));
-	  else
-	    as_warn (_("constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret"));
-	}
-      else if (lfence_before_indirect_branch != lfence_branch_none)
-	as_warn (_("constant directive skips -mlfence-before-indirect-branch"));
     }
 }
 
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/lfence-byte.e
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/lfence-byte.e
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 .*: Assembler messages:
 .*:5: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
 .*:7: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:10: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
 .*:13: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:17: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
-.*:17: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:20: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
+.*:18: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
 .*:20: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-indirect-branch on `call`
--- a/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-lfence-byte.e
+++ b/gas/testsuite/gas/i386/x86-64-lfence-byte.e
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 .*: Assembler messages:
 .*:5: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
 .*:7: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:10: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
 .*:13: Warning: `rep` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:17: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
-.*:17: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
-.*:20: Warning: constant directive skips -mlfence-before-ret and -mlfence-before-indirect-branch
+.*:18: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-ret on `ret`
 .*:20: Warning: `constant directive` skips -mlfence-before-indirect-branch on `call`



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