[PATCH] Extend handling of immediates on ARM's SystemTap SDT probe support

Marcus Shawcroft marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com
Tue Dec 24 10:05:00 GMT 2013


On 23 December 2013 19:47, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Continuing my series of fixes on the SystemTap SDT support for the
> ARM/AArch64 architectures, this patch now extends how ARM's SDT specific
> parser handles literal numbers (immediates).
>
> Currently, it only accepts "#" as the prefix.  However, according to
> "info '(as) ARM-Chars'", expressions can also have "$" and nothing as a
> prefix.  This patch extends the parser to accept those options.
>
> It is a rather trivial patch, and tests have proved that it works fine.
> OK to apply?

Looks fine to me.

This is another example of where the ARM (A32/T32) syntax differs
slightly from A64.

Cheers
/Marcus



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