As a first step towards real little-endian code generation, this patch
changes the PowerPC MC layer to actually generate little-endian object
files. This involves passing the little-endian flag through the various
layers, including down to createELFObjectWriter so we actually get basic
little-endian ELF objects, emitting instructions in little-endian order,
and handling fixups and relocations as appropriate for little-endian.
The bulk of the patch is to update most test cases in test/MC/PowerPC
to verify both big- and little-endian encodings. (The only test cases
*not* updated are those that create actual big-endian ABI code, like
the TLS tests.)
Note that while the object files are now little-endian, the generated
code itself is not yet updated, in particular, it still does not adhere
to the ELFv2 ABI.
llvm-svn: 204634
This adds support for the .llong PowerPC-specifc assembler directive.
In doing so, I notices that .word is currently incorrect: it is
supposed to define a 2-byte data element, not a 4-byte one.
llvm-svn: 185911
This adds necessary infrastructure to support the @h modifier.
Note that all required relocation types were already present
(and unused).
This patch provides support for using @h in the assembler;
it would also be possible to now use this feature in code
generated by the compiler, but this is not done yet.
llvm-svn: 184548
The assembler parser common code supports recognizing symbol variants
using the @ modifer. On PowerPC, it should also be possible to use
(some of) those modifiers with directional labels, like "1f@l".
This patch adds support for accepting symbol variants on directional
labels as well.
llvm-svn: 184437
This patch adds support for having the assembler optimize fixups
to constructs like "symbol@ha" or "symbol@l" if "symbol" can be
resolved at assembler time.
This optimization is already present in the PPCMCExpr.cpp code
for handling PPC_HA16/PPC_LO16 target expressions. However,
those target expression were used only on Darwin targets.
This patch changes target expression code so that they are
usable also with the GNU assembler (using the @ha / @l syntax
instead of the ha16() / lo16() syntax), and changes the
MCInst lowering code to generate those target expressions
where appropriate.
It also changes the asm parser to generate HA16/LO16 target
expressions when parsing assembler source that uses the
@ha / @l modifiers. The effect is that now the above-
mentioned optimization automatically becomes available
for those situations too.
llvm-svn: 184436
The current PowerPC MC back end distinguishes between fixup_ppc_ha16
and fixup_ppc_lo16, which are determined by the instruction the fixup
applies to, and uses this distinction to decide whether a fixup ought
to resolve to the high or the low part of a symbol address.
This isn't quite correct, however. It is valid -if unusual- assembler
to use, e.g.
li 1, symbol@ha
or
lis 1, symbol@l
Whether the high or the low part of the address is used depends solely
on the @ suffix, not on the instruction.
In addition, both
li 1, symbol
and
lis 1, symbol
are valid, assuming the symbol address fits into 16 bits; again, both
will then refer to the actual symbol value (so li will load the value
itself, while lis will load the value shifted by 16).
To fix this, two places need to be adapted. If the fixup cannot be
resolved at assembler time, a relocation needs to be emitted via
PPCELFObjectWriter::getRelocType. This routine already looks at
the VK_ type to determine the relocation. The only problem is that
will reject any _LO modifier in a ha16 fixup and vice versa. This
is simply incorrect; any of those modifiers ought to be accepted
for either fixup type.
If the fixup *can* be resolved at assembler time, adjustFixupValue
currently selects the high bits of the symbol value if the fixup
type is ha16. Again, this is incorrect; see the above example
lis 1, symbol
Now, in theory we'd have to respect a VK_ modifier here. However,
in fact common code never even attempts to resolve symbol references
using any nontrivial VK_ modifier at assembler time; it will always
fall back to emitting a reloc and letting the linker handle it.
If this ever changes, presumably there'd have to be a target callback
to resolve VK_ modifiers. We'd then have to handle @ha etc. there.
llvm-svn: 182091
Joerg Sonnenberger