[PATCH v12 23/25] gnu directives: gas/readelf tests for gnu attributes v2

[Jan Beulich]

On 16.01.2026 19:59, Matthieu Longo wrote:
> These tests are a copy-paste of the generic parsing tests for AArch64.
> 
> The added tests cover the parsing of the new assembly directives
> (gnu_subsection and gnu_attribute), the serialization of the
> Object Attributes v2 (OAv2) data into an object file, and the
> dumping of those data via readelf.
> 
> The parsing tests focus on the following points:
> - the syntax of the new directives.
> - the recognition of generic tokens like: NTBS, ULEB128, required,
>   optional.
> 
> The dumping tests focus on:
> - the OAv2 population into the correct section assigned by the backend.
> - the merge of the subsections and attributes when they are declared
>   several times inside respectively the same compilation unit, and
>   subsection.
> - the sorting of OAv2 before the serialization.
> ---
>  binutils/testsuite/lib/binutils-common.exp    | 33 +++++++++
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/gnu-attributes.exp     | 20 +++++
>  .../oa-no-gnu-attribute-directive.d           |  4 +
>  .../oa-no-gnu-attribute-directive.s           |  1 +
>  .../oa-no-gnu-subsection-directive.d          |  4 +
>  .../oa-no-gnu-subsection-directive.s          |  1 +
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.d      |  3 +
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.l      | 40 ++++++++++
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.s      | 70 ++++++++++++++++++
>  .../oav2-interleaved-subsections.d            | 34 +++++++++
>  .../oav2-interleaved-subsections.s            | 32 ++++++++
>  .../gnu-attributes/oav2-subsection-parsing.d  | 74 +++++++++++++++++++
>  .../gnu-attributes/oav2-subsection-parsing.s  | 37 ++++++++++
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-success-1.d       | 52 +++++++++++++
>  .../gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-success-1.s       | 32 ++++++++
>  15 files changed, 437 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/gnu-attributes.exp
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oa-no-gnu-attribute-directive.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oa-no-gnu-attribute-directive.s
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oa-no-gnu-subsection-directive.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oa-no-gnu-subsection-directive.s
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.l
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-failures-1.s
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-interleaved-subsections.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-interleaved-subsections.s
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-subsection-parsing.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-subsection-parsing.s
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-success-1.d
>  create mode 100644 gas/testsuite/gas/gnu-attributes/oav2-success-1.s

Still somewhat hesitantly: Okay.

Jan