Most Arm disassemblers, including GNU objdump and Arm's own `fromelf`,
emit an instruction's raw encoding as a 32-bit words or (for Thumb)
one or two 16-bit halfwords, in logical order rather than according to
their storage endianness. This is generally easier to read: it matches
the encoding diagrams in the architecture spec, it matches the value
you'd write in a `.inst` directive, and it means that fields within
the instruction encoding that span more than one byte (such as branch
offsets or `SVC` immediates) can be read directly in the encoding
without having to mentally reverse the bytes.
llvm-objdump already has a system of PrettyPrinter subclasses which
makes it easy for a target to drop in its own preferred formatting.
This patch adds pretty-printers for all the Arm targets, so that
llvm-objdump will display Arm instruction encodings in their preferred
layout instead of little-endian and bytewise.
Reviewed By: DavidSpickett
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130358
The clause in `dumpARMELFData` that dumps a single byte as a `.byte`
directive was printing the operand of that directive as `Bytes[0]`,
not `Bytes[Index]`. In particular, this led to the `dumpBytes` output
to its left not matching it!
Reviewed By: DavidSpickett
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130360
Similar to D77853. Change ADRP to print the target address in hex, instead of the raw immediate.
The behavior is similar to GNU objdump but we also include `0x`.
Note: GNU objdump is not consistent whether or not to emit `0x` for different architectures. We try emitting 0x consistently for all targets.
```
GNU objdump: adrp x16, 10000000
Old llvm-objdump: adrp x16, #0
New llvm-objdump: adrp x16, 0x10000000
```
`adrp Xd, 0x...` assembles to a relocation referencing `*ABS*+0x10000` which is not intended. We need to use a linker or use yaml2obj.
The main test is `test/tools/llvm-objdump/ELF/AArch64/pcrel-address.yaml`
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93241
Simon Tatham