[PATCH v9 05/19] gas: use common code for object attribute v1 & v2 parsing

[Jan Beulich]

On 01.09.2025 18:56, Matthieu Longo wrote:
> Since the previous patch added all the code to be able to parse both
> OAv1 and OAv2 directives, this patch switches OAv1 to use this common
> code.
> Additionally to the common code in obj-elf.c, the following backends
> using a custom object attribute directive were impacted.
>   - ARC
>   - Arm
>   - m68k
>   - PowerPC
>   - RISC-V
>   - TI C6X
> A parsing test for Arm had to be adapted to the error messages of the
> new parser.
> 
> The gas and ld test suites were successfully run for the following
> backends: S390, ARC, Arm, CSky, m68k, msp430, PowerPC, TI C6X, RISC-V,
> AArch64, MIPS, SPARC.
> ---
>  gas/config/obj-elf-attr.c           | 116 ----------------------------
>  gas/config/obj-elf-attr.h           |   5 --
>  gas/config/obj-elf.c                |   5 --
>  gas/config/tc-arc.c                 |   2 +-
>  gas/config/tc-arm.c                 |   2 +-
>  gas/config/tc-m68k.c                |   2 +-
>  gas/config/tc-ppc.c                 |   2 +-
>  gas/config/tc-riscv.c               |   2 +-
>  gas/config/tc-tic6x.c               |   2 +-
>  gas/testsuite/gas/arm/attr-syntax.d |   6 +-
>  10 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 133 deletions(-)

Looks good to me, but likely will want at least an Arm maintainer ack (the other
arch-specific changes are mechanical enough).

Jan