[v2] gas/NEWS, ld/NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in 2.42
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The change is self-explained, no more commit message :).
Co-authored-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Signed-off-by: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
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v1 -> v2:
- Do not falsely claim la.tls.le supported relax.
- Do not mention 3-operand .align directive support because it only
supports an empty 2nd operand with a warning as at now.
gas/NEWS | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
ld/NEWS | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
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Hi Xi,
> The change is self-explained, no more commit message :).
>
Just to confirm: Approved - please apply.
Cheers
Nick
On Tue, 2024-01-23 at 11:28 +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Xi,
>
> > The change is self-explained, no more commit message :).
> >
>
> Just to confirm: Approved - please apply.
I don't have a write access, so relying on you or Qinggang to push.
Hi Xi,
> I don't have a write access, so relying on you or Qinggang to push.
Applied (both mainline and the 2.42 branch).
Cheers
Nick
@@ -66,6 +66,33 @@ Changes in 2.42:
* The BPF assembler now allows using both hash (#) and double slash (//) to
begin line comments.
+* Add support for LoongArch v1.10 new instructions: estimated reciprocal
+ instructions, sub-word atomic instructions, atomic CAS instructions,
+ 16-byte store-conditional instruction, load-linked instructions with
+ acquire semantics, and store-conditional instructions with release
+ semantics.
+
+* The %call36 relocation operator, along with the pseudo-instructions
+ call36 and tail36, are now usable with the LoongArch "medium" code
+ model, allowing text sections up to 128 GiB.
+
+* TLS descriptors (TLSDESC) are now supported on LoongArch. This includes
+ the following new relocation operators: %desc_pc_hi20, %desc_pc_lo12,
+ %desc_ld, and %desc_call, and the la.tls.desc pseudo-instruction.
+
+* TLS LE relaxation is now supported on LoongArch. New relocation
+ operators %le_hi20_r, %le_lo12r, and %le_add_r are now available.
+
+* Add support for LoongArch branch relaxation: a conditional branch with
+ destination out of its immediate operand range, but still within
+ a "b"'s range, is now assembled as an inverted branch and a "b". This
+ works around the unreliable branch offset estimation of the compiler
+ when .align directive is encoded into a long NOP sequence with an
+ R_LARCH_RELAX by the assembler.
+
+* Symbol or label names in LoongArch assembly can now be spelled with
+ double-quotes.
+
Changes in 2.41:
* Add support for the KVX instruction set.
@@ -29,6 +29,17 @@ Changes in 2.42:
--enable-error-rwx-segments=[yes|no] configure options to set the default for
converting warnings into errors.
+* On LoongArch, various linker relaxation bugs are fixed; the most notable
+ of which is BZ 30944 (incorrect .balign semantics).
+
+* On LoongArch, the LoongArch ABI v2.30 (LoongArch ELF psABI v20231219) is
+ now implemented. This includes new relocation types, and changed
+ semantics for PC-relative relocations handling the higher half of 64-bit
+ offsets.
+
+* On LoongArch, link-time TLS optimization and TLS relaxation are now
+ supported.
+
Changes in 2.41:
* The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs