[LLVMdev] Add support for ldr pseudo instruction in ARM integrated assembler

[Sean Silva]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:33 PM, David Peixotto <dpeixott at codeaurora.org>wrote:

> 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. It would be great if the llvm integrated assembler could
> support this feature as well.
>
> For example, using gnu as to compile this code:
>     .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
>               ^
> I am interested in seeing support for this feature added to the integrated
> assembler. Is anybody planning to add this feature? I am willing to do the
> work, but I am not sure exactly where to start so I thought I would bring
> it
> up here in case anybody has some suggestions (or wants to implement it
> themselves :)
>

I would like to see this features supported. I have run into code in the
wild that cannot be handled by the LLVM toolchain due to this issue.

-- Sean Silva


>
> CC'ing some recent contributors to the llvm arm assembler.
>
> gnu as reference:
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/ARM-Opcodes.html#ARM-Opcodes
>
> -David
>
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