@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2015-06-03 Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
+
+ * as.c (show_usage): Document --sectname-subst.
+ (parse_args): Add --sectname-subst.
+ * as.h (flag_sectname_subst): New.
+ * config/obj-elf.c (obj_elf_section_name): Add %S substitution.
+ * doc/as.texinfo: Document it.
+
2015-06-08 Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
* config/tc-rx.c (rx_op): Correct handling of integer bignums.
@@ -284,6 +284,8 @@ Options:\n\
fprintf (stream, _("\
--size-check=[error|warning]\n\
ELF .size directive check (default --size-check=error)\n"));
+ fprintf (stream, _("\
+ --sectname-subst enable section name substitution sequences\n"));
#endif
fprintf (stream, _("\
-f skip whitespace and comment preprocessing\n"));
@@ -447,6 +449,7 @@ parse_args (int * pargc, char *** pargv)
OPTION_EXECSTACK,
OPTION_NOEXECSTACK,
OPTION_SIZE_CHECK,
+ OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST,
OPTION_ALTERNATE,
OPTION_AL,
OPTION_HASH_TABLE_SIZE,
@@ -481,6 +484,7 @@ parse_args (int * pargc, char *** pargv)
,{"execstack", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_EXECSTACK}
,{"noexecstack", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_NOEXECSTACK}
,{"size-check", required_argument, NULL, OPTION_SIZE_CHECK}
+ ,{"sectname-subst", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST}
#endif
,{"fatal-warnings", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_WARN_FATAL}
,{"gdwarf-2", no_argument, NULL, OPTION_GDWARF2}
@@ -848,6 +852,10 @@ This program has absolutely no warranty.\n"));
else
as_fatal (_("Invalid --size-check= option: `%s'"), optarg);
break;
+
+ case OPTION_SECTNAME_SUBST:
+ flag_sectname_subst = 1;
+ break;
#endif
case 'Z':
flag_always_generate_output = 1;
@@ -589,6 +589,9 @@ COMMON enum
size_check_warning
}
flag_size_check;
+
+/* If section name substitution sequences should be honored */
+COMMON int flag_sectname_subst;
#endif
#ifndef DOLLAR_AMBIGU
@@ -917,6 +917,27 @@ obj_elf_section_name (void)
name = (char *) xmalloc (end - input_line_pointer + 1);
memcpy (name, input_line_pointer, end - input_line_pointer);
name[end - input_line_pointer] = '\0';
+
+ while (flag_sectname_subst)
+ {
+ char *subst = strchr (name, '%');
+ if (subst && subst[1] == 'S')
+ {
+ int oldlen = strlen (name);
+ int substlen = strlen (now_seg->name);
+ int newlen = oldlen - 2 + substlen;
+ char *newname = (char *) xmalloc (newlen + 1);
+ int headlen = subst - name;
+ memcpy (newname, name, headlen);
+ strcpy (newname + headlen, now_seg->name);
+ strcat (newname + headlen, subst + 2);
+ xfree (name);
+ name = newname;
+ }
+ else
+ break;
+ }
+
#ifdef tc_canonicalize_section_name
name = tc_canonicalize_section_name (name);
#endif
@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ gcc(1), ld(1), and the Info entries for @file{binutils} and @file{ld}.
@var{objfile}] [@b{-R}] [@b{--reduce-memory-overheads}] [@b{--statistics}]
[@b{-v}] [@b{-version}] [@b{--version}] [@b{-W}] [@b{--warn}]
[@b{--fatal-warnings}] [@b{-w}] [@b{-x}] [@b{-Z}] [@b{@@@var{FILE}}]
- [@b{--size-check=[error|warning]}]
+ [@b{--sectname-subst}] [@b{--size-check=[error|warning]}]
[@b{--target-help}] [@var{target-options}]
[@b{--}|@var{files} @dots{}]
@c
@@ -766,6 +766,14 @@ This option reduces GAS's memory requirements, at the expense of making the
assembly processes slower. Currently this switch is a synonym for
@samp{--hash-size=4051}, but in the future it may have other effects as well.
+@ifset ELF
+@item --sectname-subst
+Honor substitution sequences in section names.
+@ifclear man
+@xref{Section Name Substitutions,,@code{.section @var{name}}}.
+@end ifclear
+@end ifset
+
@item --statistics
Print the maximum space (in bytes) and total time (in seconds) used by
assembly.
@@ -6259,6 +6267,38 @@ For ELF targets, the @code{.section} directive is used like this:
.section @var{name} [, "@var{flags}"[, @@@var{type}[,@var{flag_specific_arguments}]]]
@end smallexample
+@anchor{Section Name Substitutions}
+@kindex --sectname-subst
+@cindex section name substitution
+If the @samp{--sectname-subst} command-line option is provided, the @var{name}
+argument may contain a substitution sequence. Only @code{%S} is supported
+at the moment, and substitutes the current section name. For example:
+
+@smallexample
+.macro exception_code
+.section %S.exception
+[exception code here]
+.previous
+.endm
+
+.text
+[code]
+exception_code
+[...]
+
+.section .init
+[init code]
+exception_code
+[...]
+@end smallexample
+
+The two @code{exception_code} invocations above would create the
+@code{.text.exception} and @code{.init.exception} sections respectively.
+This is useful e.g. to discriminate between anciliary sections that are
+tied to setup code to be discarded after use from anciliary sections that
+need to stay resident without having to define multiple @code{exception_code}
+macros just for that purpose.
+
The optional @var{flags} argument is a quoted string which may contain any
combination of the following characters:
@table @code
I created a patch on top of upstream binutils for a feature I need which should be universally useful. Therefore I'm posting this here in the hope it could be applied to the mainline binutils tree. If this is not the right procedure for patch submission then please advise. ----- >8 Subject: [PATCH] gas: introduce section name substitution support This patch adds the ability to automatically construct a section name based on the prior section. When gas is invoked with --sectname-subst, the occurrence of %S in a section name will be substituted by the name of the current section. For example: .macro exception_code .pushsection %S.exception [exception code here] .popsection .endm .text [code] exception_code [...] .section .init [init code] exception_code [...] The first and second exception_code invocations create the .text.exception and the .init.exception sections respectively. This is useful e.g. to discriminate between anciliary sections that are tied to .init code and can be discarded at run time when initialization is over vs anciliary sections tied to .text sections that need to stay resident. This would also allow for actually omitting __exit sections from the Linux kernel binary for compiled-in modules even when that code generates exception table entries. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>