[PATCH 0/2] RISC-V: Fix CONFIG_AS_HAS_OPTION_ARCH with tip of tree LLVM

[Conor Dooley]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2024 at 10:32:10AM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Eric reported that builds of LLVM with [1] (close to tip of tree) have
> CONFIG_AS_HAS_OPTION_ARCH=n because the test for expected failure on
> invalid input has started succeeding.
> 
> This Kconfig test was added because '.option arch' only causes an
> assembler warning when it is unsupported, rather than a hard error,
> which is what users of as-instr expect when something is unsupported.
> 
> This can be resolved by turning assembler warnings into errors with
> '-Wa,--fatal-warnings' like we do with the compiler with '-Werror',
> which is what the first patch does. The second patch removes the invalid
> test, as the valid test is good enough with fatal warnings.
> 
> I have diffed several configurations for the different architectures
> that use as-instr and I have found no issues.
> 
> I think this could go in through either the kbuild or RISC-V tree with
> sufficient acks but I will let them fight over who takes it :)

I think RISC-V would be good, since building the vector crypto stuff
also needs this fix.

Tested-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>
Reviewed-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley at microchip.com>

Cheers,
Conor.
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