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Re: [PATCH] Extend handling of immediates on ARM's SystemTap SDT probe support
- From: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at arm dot com>, Yufeng Zhang <Yufeng dot Zhang at arm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 10:05:02 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend handling of immediates on ARM's SystemTap SDT probe support
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On 23 December 2013 19:47, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Continuing my series of fixes on the SystemTap SDT support for the
> ARM/AArch64 architectures, this patch now extends how ARM's SDT specific
> parser handles literal numbers (immediates).
>
> Currently, it only accepts "#" as the prefix. However, according to
> "info '(as) ARM-Chars'", expressions can also have "$" and nothing as a
> prefix. This patch extends the parser to accept those options.
>
> It is a rather trivial patch, and tests have proved that it works fine.
> OK to apply?
Looks fine to me.
This is another example of where the ARM (A32/T32) syntax differs
slightly from A64.
Cheers
/Marcus