[LLVMbugs] [Bug 17769] New: Add support for ldr pseudo instruction in ARM integrated assembler

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http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=17769

            Bug ID: 17769
           Summary: Add support for ldr pseudo instruction in ARM
                    integrated assembler
           Product: tools
           Version: trunk
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P
         Component: llc
          Assignee: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
          Reporter: dpeixott at codeaurora.org
                CC: llvmbugs at cs.uiuc.edu
    Classification: Unclassified

Both armasm and gnu as support an ldr pseudo instruction for loading constants
that lowers to either a mov, movn, or a pc-relative ldr from the constant pool.
For example, compiling this assembly with gnu as:

    .text
    foo:
      ldr r0, =0x1
      ldr r0, =-0x1
      ldr r0, =0x1000001
      ldr r0, =bar
      ldr r0, =baz
    bar:

Produces an object file like this (with relocations shown):
    Disassembly of section .text:
      00000000 <foo>:
         0:   e3a00001        mov     r0, #1
         4:   e3e00000        mvn     r0, #0
         8:   e59f0004        ldr     r0, [pc, #4]    ; 14 <bar>
         c:   e59f0004        ldr     r0, [pc, #4]    ; 18 <bar+0x4>
        10:   e59f0004        ldr     r0, [pc, #4]    ; 1c <bar+0x8>

      00000014 <bar>:
        14:   01000001        .word   0x01000001
        18:   00000014        .word   0x00000014
                              18: R_ARM_ABS32 .text
        1c:   00000000        .word   0x00000000
                              1c: R_ARM_ABS32 baz

Currently the llvm integrated assembler fails on this input with an error like:

    error: unexpected token in operand
      ldr r0, =0x1
              ^

After discussion on the llvm-dev list (see thread started here:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2013-October/066808.html), the
community supports adding this feature to the integrated assembler.

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