style question: breaking inline assembly lines

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Mon Jun 12 22:03:30 UTC 2023


On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:54 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:50 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 2:28 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 3:10 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> We have a mix of ways to write inline assembly. It would be convenient
>> >> to choose one way. The prevailing options are based on breaking around
>> >> the colons (reg/field separators), either to break at colons if the
>> >> line length > 80, or to always break at colons.
>> >>
>> >> I personally find it is easier to read inline assembly that has broken
>> >> at the colons. But we have these options:
>> >> 1. Always break at the colon
>> >> 2. Only break when the line length is exceeded
>> >
>> >
>> > I lean to (1).
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> With #2, we also can break as usual, or we can force breaks at the
>> >> colons. I have seen examples of both in the source tree. Any strong
>> >> opinions one way or another?
>> >
>> >
>> > There may also be cases of multiple assembly instructions on the
>> > same line or split across multiple with line continuation. I don't know
>> > of one offhand though.
>> A complicated example of that would be
>> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c#n60
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> Yikes! Does that look ok after clang-format processes it?
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Yes.

Below is a snippet of patch for that. One thing to note, there's
currently no way to avoid adding the spaces inside of
'__atribute__((naked))' as a special case. If this is desired, it will
need to be added to clang-format probably.

diff --git a/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
b/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
index 35dde50dc3..ff00ad2a72 100644
--- a/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
+++ b/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/armv7m-exception-default.c
@@ -42,23 +42,23 @@

 #ifdef ARM_MULTILIB_ARCH_V7M

-void __attribute__((naked)) _ARMV7M_Exception_default( void )
+void __attribute__( ( naked ) ) _ARMV7M_Exception_default( void )
 {
-    /* On exception entry, ARMv7M saves context state onto a stack pointed to
-     * by either MSP or PSP. The value stored in LR indicates whether we were
-     * in Thread or Handler mode, whether we were using the FPU (if any),
-     * and which stack pointer we were using.
-     * In particular, bit 2 of LR will be 0 if we were using MSP.
-     *
-     * For a more detailed explanation, see the Exception Entry Behavior
-     * section of the ARMv7M Architecture Reference Manual.
-     */
+  /* On exception entry, ARMv7M saves context state onto a stack pointed to
+   * by either MSP or PSP. The value stored in LR indicates whether we were
+   * in Thread or Handler mode, whether we were using the FPU (if any),
+   * and which stack pointer we were using.
+   * In particular, bit 2 of LR will be 0 if we were using MSP.
+   *
+   * For a more detailed explanation, see the Exception Entry Behavior
+   * section of the ARMv7M Architecture Reference Manual.
+   */

-    /* As we're in Handler mode here, we'll always operate on MSP.
-     * However, we need to store the right SP in our CPU_Exception_frame.
-     */
-  __asm__ volatile (
-    "sub sp, %[cpufsz]\n"   /* Allocate space for a CPU_Exception_frame. */
+  /* As we're in Handler mode here, we'll always operate on MSP.
+   * However, we need to store the right SP in our CPU_Exception_frame.
+   */
+  __asm__ volatile(
+    "sub sp, %[cpufsz]\n" /* Allocate space for a CPU_Exception_frame. */
     "stm sp, {r0-r12}\n"
     "tst lr, #4\n"          /* Check if bit 2 of LR is zero. If so,
PSR.Z = 1 */
     "itte eq\n"             /* IF bit 2 of LR is zero... (PSR.Z == 1) */
@@ -67,15 +67,15 @@ void __attribute__((naked))
_ARMV7M_Exception_default( void )
     "mrsne r3, psp\n"       /* ELSE it is not zero; we were using PSP */
     "add r2, r3, %[v7mlroff]\n"
     "add r1, sp, %[cpuspoff]\n"
-    "ldm r2, {r4-r6}\n"     /* Grab LR, PC and xPSR from the stack */
-    "tst lr, #16\n"         /* Check if we have an FP state on the frame */
+    "ldm r2, {r4-r6}\n" /* Grab LR, PC and xPSR from the stack */
+    "tst lr, #16\n"     /* Check if we have an FP state on the frame */
     "ite eq\n"
-    "addeq r3, #104\n"      /* Back to previous SP with FP state */
-    "addne r3, #32\n"       /* Back to previous SP without FP state */
-    "tst r6, #512\n"        /* Check xPSR if the SP was aligned */
+    "addeq r3, #104\n" /* Back to previous SP with FP state */
+    "addne r3, #32\n"  /* Back to previous SP without FP state */
+    "tst r6, #512\n"   /* Check xPSR if the SP was aligned */
     "it ne\n"
-    "addne r3, #4\n"        /* Undo alignment */
-    "stm r1, {r3-r6}\n"     /* Store to CPU_Exception_frame */
+    "addne r3, #4\n"    /* Undo alignment */
+    "stm r1, {r3-r6}\n" /* Store to CPU_Exception_frame */
     "mrs r1, ipsr\n"
     "str r1, [sp, %[cpuvecoff]]\n"

@@ -113,13 +113,13 @@ void __attribute__((naked))
_ARMV7M_Exception_default( void )

     "b _ARM_Exception_default\n"
     :
-    : [cpufsz] "i" (sizeof(CPU_Exception_frame)),
-      [cpuspoff] "i" (offsetof(CPU_Exception_frame, register_sp)),
-      [v7mlroff] "i" (offsetof(ARMV7M_Exception_frame, register_lr)),
-      [cpuvecoff] "J" (offsetof(CPU_Exception_frame, vector)),
-      [cpuvfpoff] "i" (ARM_EXCEPTION_FRAME_VFP_CONTEXT_OFFSET),
-      [cpacr] "i" (ARMV7M_CPACR),
-      [vfpsz] "i" (ARM_VFP_CONTEXT_SIZE)
+    : [cpufsz] "i"( sizeof( CPU_Exception_frame ) ),
+      [cpuspoff] "i"( offsetof( CPU_Exception_frame, register_sp ) ),
+      [v7mlroff] "i"( offsetof( ARMV7M_Exception_frame, register_lr ) ),
+      [cpuvecoff] "J"( offsetof( CPU_Exception_frame, vector ) ),
+      [cpuvfpoff] "i"( ARM_EXCEPTION_FRAME_VFP_CONTEXT_OFFSET ),
+      [cpacr] "i"( ARMV7M_CPACR ),
+      [vfpsz] "i"( ARM_VFP_CONTEXT_SIZE )
   );
 }


>>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> here's a line broken because of line lengths, that has not split the
>> >> arguments at the colons:
>> >> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/include/rtems/score/aarch32-system-registers.h#n69
>> >>
>> >> Here's a line broken because of line lengths:
>> >> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/score/cpu/arm/include/rtems/score/cpu.h#n501
>> >>
>> >> Here's a line broken always:
>> >> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/score/cpu/aarch64/cpu.c#n153
>> >>
>> >> And for good measure, here's an unbroken line that should be broken:
>> >> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/tree/cpukit/score/cpu/microblaze/include/rtems/score/cpu.h#n206
>> >>
>> >> With the newest version of clang-format we will be able to accommodate
>> >> always breaking the lines. It currently is inconsistent with whether
>> >> it puts the first argument on its own line, or keeps it with the
>> >> "__asm__ volatile (" that I could probably make consistent if we
>> >> decide we need it to be.
>> >>
>> >> Gedare
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