We do know some conflicts among different privileged specs. For linker,
the safest approach is that don't allow the object linked with others which
may cause conflicts. But this may cause inconvenience since not all objects
with conflicting priv specs are linked will cause problems. But it is hard
to know the detailed conflict cases for linker, so we probably need a option
to tell linker that we do know there are no conflicts, or we are willing to
take risks to link the objects with conflicted priv specs. But the option
is still under discussion.
Therefore, we can report warnings rather than errors when linking the objects
with conflicted priv specs. This not only makes the linker more flexible,
but also warns people that the conflicts may happen. We also need to update
the output priv spec version once the input priv spec is newer.
bfd/
* elfxx-riscv.c (struct priv_spec_t priv_specs[]): Move them from
opcodes/riscv-opc.c to bfd/elfxx-riscv.c, since we need it in linker.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_class): Likewise.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_name): Likewise.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_class_from_numbers): New function, convert
the version numbers into string, then call riscv_get_priv_spec_class
to get the priv spec class.
* elfxx-riscv.h (riscv_get_priv_spec_class): Move forward declaration
from include/opcode/riscv.h to bfd/elfxx-riscv.h.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_name): Likewise.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_class_from_numbers): New forward declaration.
(opcode/riscv.h): Include it in the header rather than elfxx-riscv.c.
* elfnn-riscv.c (riscv_merge_attributes): Get the priv spec classes
of input and output objects form their priv spec attributes by
riscv_get_priv_spec_class_from_numbers. Report warning rather than
errors when linking objects with differnet priv spec versions. We do
know v1.9.1 may have conflicts to other versions, so report the
warning, too. After that, update the output priv spec version to the
newest one so far.
gas/
* config/tc-riscv.c (buf_size, buf): Remove the unused variables.
(riscv_set_default_priv_spec): Get the priv spec version from the
priv spec attributes by riscv_get_priv_spec_class_from_numbers.
include/
* opcode/riscv.h (riscv_get_priv_spec_class): Move the function
forward declarations to bfd/elfxx-riscv.h.
(riscv_get_priv_spec_name): Likewise.
opcodes/
* riscv-opc.c: Move the structures and functions to bfd/elfxx-riscv.c.
* riscv-dis.c: Include elfxx-riscv.h.
ld/
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-01.d: Updated.
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-02.d: Updated.
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-03.d: Updated.
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-04.d: Updated.
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-05.d: Updated.
* testsuite/ld-riscv-elf/attr-merge-priv-spec-failed-06.d: Updated.
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HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
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