On 10.02.2019 22:24, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2019, Stefan Agner wrote:
>
>> This patchset converts all assembly code to unified assembler
>> language (UAL) compatible assembly code. From what I can tell,
>> this mainly boils down to using conditional infixes instead of
>> postfixes.
>>
>> Most of the conversion has been done using the following regular
>> expression:
>> find ./arch/arm/ -name "*.[hSc]" -exec sed -i -r \
>>
>> "s/^((\s*[._a-zA-Z0-9]*[\:\(])?\s*)([a-z]{3})(eq|ne|cs|hs|cc|lo|mi|pl|vs|vc|hi|ls|ge|lt|gt|le|al)([a-z]{1,2})(\s)/\1\3\5\4\6/"
>> \
>> {} \;
>>
>> The expression resulted in some false positives and missed some
>> instances where infix conditionals have been used. With this
>> changes applied, I compiled several kernel configurations
>> successfully and without a warning.
>>
>> The file arch/arm/probes/kprobes/test-arm.c is still using some
>> divided syntax assembler.
>>
>> This does not allow to use LLVM's integrated assembler just yet,
>> there is still some assembler which the integrated assembler does
>> not like (yet). But it is a big step towards that direction.
>
> OK....
>
> Please document why you added .syntax unified in the commit log of each
> patch where this is added along with a link to the gcc PR. Then you may
> add Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org> to the whole series.
Agreed, that is a good idea. Will send v3. Thanks for the Acks.
--
Stefan
