ia64: add option to suppress warnings about A/B-step errata

[Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

There aren't very many ia64 A or B step chips out there, so the
assembler warnings about additional NOPs needed to avoid their
errata aren't very useful.  This patch turns them off by default,
and adds an option -mb-step to turn them back on.  This name
matches the GCC option which instructs the compiler to generate
those additional NOPs - the idea is that GCC will pass the option
along to the assembler, and the assembler will catch mistakes in
GCC's code generation, or in hand-written inline assembly.

Unfortunately the assembler does not ignore unrecognized -m options,
so there is a compatibility issue if I make GCC 3.4 (say) start
passing -mb-step along to the assembler, but it will only affect
people who want to use brand new GCC to generate code for these old
chips - I think it can be handled with a release note.

I tested the patch with this code fragment:

        mov r2 = 12345
        fcmp.eq p6,p7 = f0,f1 ;;
   (p6) mov r2 = 67890 ;;
        st8 [r2] = r0

$ ./as-new test.s
$ ./as-new -mb-step test.s
test.s: Assembler messages:
test.s:4: Warning: Additional NOP may be necessary to workaround 
                   Itanium processor A/B step errata

If this patch is approved I would like it to be included on the 2.15
release branch as well as mainline.

Comments?  Where should this be documented?  How do I add test cases?

zw

        * config/tc-ia64.c (struct md): Add detect_b_step_errata flag.
        (md_parse_option): Set it when -mb-step.
        (emit_one_bundle): Check it before calling errata_nop_necessary_p.

===================================================================
Index: gas/config/tc-ia64.c
--- gas/config/tc-ia64.c	9 Apr 2004 18:28:11 -0000	1.101.4.1
+++ gas/config/tc-ia64.c	10 Apr 2004 18:45:10 -0000
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ static struct
       manual_bundling : 1,
       debug_dv: 1,
       detect_dv: 1,
+      detect_b_step_errata: 1,
       explicit_mode : 1,            /* which mode we're in */
       default_explicit_mode : 1,    /* which mode is the default */
       mode_explicitly_set : 1,      /* was the current mode explicitly set? */
@@ -6351,7 +6352,8 @@ emit_one_bundle ()
 	dwarf2_gen_line_info (addr, &md.slot[curr].debug_line);
       }
 
-      if (errata_nop_necessary_p (md.slot + curr, insn_unit))
+      if (md.detect_b_step_errata
+	  && errata_nop_necessary_p (md.slot + curr, insn_unit))
 	as_warn (_("Additional NOP may be necessary to workaround Itanium processor A/B step errata"));
 
       build_insn (md.slot + curr, insn + i);
@@ -6476,6 +6478,10 @@ md_parse_option (c, arg)
       else if (strcmp (arg, "be") == 0)
 	{
 	  md.flags |= EF_IA_64_BE;
+	}
+      else if (strcmp (arg, "b-step") == 0)
+	{
+	  md.detect_b_step_errata = 1;
 	}
       else
 	return 0;