[PATCH v10 04/28] gas: move code for object attribute parsing into obj-elf-attr.c

[Matthieu Longo]

On 21/11/2025 07:32, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 20.11.2025 18:58, Matthieu Longo wrote:
>> Gas, contrarilly to others binutils tools, is compiled for a specific
>> target. Some targets don't support Object Attributes (OAs). For those
>> cases, today the OA directive ".gnu_attribute" is still enabled but the
>> processing would probably fail in most of cases because the named tag
>> would be unknown. Most of the parsing code on such a target can be
>> considered as dead code.
>>
>> This patch aims at removing this dead code from Gas when the target does
>> not support the OAs by:
>> - moving the code of OA parsing into a separate file under gas/config
>>    which is only included for the relevant targets supporting OAs.
>> - disabling the code related to OAs on non-OA target via a TC_OBJ_ATTR
>>    macro.
>>
>> Adding/removing the OA feature from Gas for a specific target can easilly
>> be done from tc-<arch>.h by changing the values of TC_OBJ_ATTR: 1 enabled,
>> 0 disabled. You might also want to guard the enablement of OAs only for
>> ELF targets with OBJ_ELF (see example below).
>>
>> \#ifdef OBJ_ELF
>> /* The target supports Object Attributes.  */
>> \#define TC_OBJ_ATTR 1
>> \#endif
> 
> There's again no mention of changes here, and the one unmentioned change
> was asked for when giving the okay. Hence again the request - please commit
> what is ready to be committed before posting a new version.
> 
> Jan

Merged.

Matthieu