Re: Support for the pseudo-C BPF assembler syntax in GAS

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On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 12:35 PM Jose E. Marchesi
<jose.marchesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On 4/26/23 10:37 AM, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
> >> Just a heads up, we just committed support for the assembly syntax
> >> used
> >> by clang to the GNU assembler [1].
> >
> > Thanks! Do you which gcc release is expected to contain these changes?
>
> This is the assembler, i.e. binutils.
> We don't need to update the compiler.
>
> >> Salud!
> >> [1] https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2023-April/127222.html

This is awesome!
We recently converted tens of thousands of lines of bpf asm from macros
to inline asm in C.
See tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/verifier_*.c
I wonder how gas-bpf can deal with that.
We had to fix several inline asm issues in clang to get to this point
and probably more to come.




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