Re: GCC and binutils support for BPF V4 instructions

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On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 9:41 AM Jose E. Marchesi
<jose.marchesi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello.
>
> Just a heads up regarding the new BPF V4 instructions and their support
> in the GNU Toolchain.

Awesome. Thanks for the update!

> V4 sdiv/smod instructions
>
>   Binutils has been updated to use the V4 encoding of these
>   instructions, which used to be part of the xbpf testing dialect used
>   in GCC.  GCC generates these instructions for signed division when
>   -mcpu=v4 or higher.

With sdiv/smod implemented do you still have a need for xbpf flag?
Anything still missing or you can start using -mcpu=v4 in gcc selftests
and remove xbpf completely?

>
> So I think we are done with this.  Please let us know if these
> instructions ever change.

Fingers crossed, they will never change.
How far are we from running bpf selftests with gcc?





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