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Re: PR binutils/23013: Assembler not recognizing 3-opt dcbt instruction form on Power systems


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 02:56:24PM -0500, Peter Bergner wrote:
> The 3 operand dcbt instruction was added to the Power (server) ISA in the
> power4 time frame.  The problem is that gas defaults to assembling for an
> older cpu than power4, so you need to pass -mpower4 (or newer) to assemble
> the 3 operand form of dcbt.
> 
> That said, Michael was trying to assemble on a 64-bit LE system and those
> system's minimum support cpu is power8, therefore, gas really should default
> to power8 when we're targeting powerpc64le-*.  The following patch accomplishes
> that with no testsuite regressions.
> 
> Alan, does this look reasonable to you?

Yes, I think this is a good idea.

> diff --git a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
> index ff76221..e3d5d84 100644
> --- a/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
> +++ b/gas/config/tc-ppc.c
> @@ -1403,7 +1403,14 @@ ppc_set_cpu (void)
>    if ((ppc_cpu & ~(ppc_cpu_t) PPC_OPCODE_ANY) == 0)
>      {
>        if (ppc_obj64)
> -	ppc_cpu |= PPC_OPCODE_PPC | PPC_OPCODE_64;
> +	if (target_big_endian)
> +	  ppc_cpu |= PPC_OPCODE_PPC | PPC_OPCODE_64;
> +	else
> +	  /* The minimum supported cpu for 64-bit little-endian is power8.  */
> +	  ppc_cpu |= PPC_OPCODE_PPC | PPC_OPCODE_ISEL | PPC_OPCODE_64

Write the above line as

	  ppc_cpu |= (PPC_OPCODE_PPC | PPC_OPCODE_ISEL | PPC_OPCODE_64

ie. add a syntactially unnecessary parenthesis for emacs to
auto-indent the code properly.

https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Formatting

> +		     | PPC_OPCODE_POWER4 | PPC_OPCODE_POWER5 | PPC_OPCODE_POWER6
> +		     | PPC_OPCODE_POWER7 | PPC_OPCODE_POWER8
> +		     | PPC_OPCODE_ALTIVEC | PPC_OPCODE_VSX;
>        else if (strncmp (default_os, "aix", 3) == 0
>  	       && default_os[3] >= '4' && default_os[3] <= '9')
>  	ppc_cpu |= PPC_OPCODE_COMMON;
> 

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM


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