Make the spellings for the label-mangling options and pragmas
consistent, and implement the directive forms which were documented
but never implemented.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
SPDX is an international standard for documenting software license
requirements. Remove the existing headers and replace with a brief
SPDX preamble.
See: https://spdx.dev/use/specifications/
The script used to convert the files is added to "tools", and the
file header templates in headers/ are updated.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
NASM convention is to use all-upper-case for "real" information, and
mixed-case (upper case common prefix, lower case description) for
meta-information. This is a highly useful distinction.
Thus "LBL_NONE" implies an actual label of type "NONE", as opposed to
no label at all.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Currently, NASM always issues as an unknown symbol any symbol declared
EXTERN. This is highly undesirable when using common header files,
as it might cause the linker to pull in a bunch of unnecessary
modules, depending on how smart the linker is.
Add a new REQUIRED directive which behaves like the old EXTERN, for
the use cases which might still need this behavior.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
In order to support Mach-O better, add support for subsections, as
used by Mach-O "subsections_via_symbols". We also want to add
infrastructure to support this by downcalling to the backend to
indicate if a new subsection is needed.
Currently this supports a maximum of 2^14 subsections per section for
Mach-O; this can be addressed by adding a level of indirection (or
cleaning up the handling of sections so we have an actual data
structure.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Global variables need to be declared in a header file; "extern" in C
files should be used extremely rarely (it is OK at least for now for
macro tables as they are generally only ever used in one specific
location, but otherwise, no.)
In a few cases the global variables were actually function-local!
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Make the source code easier to understand and keep track of by
organizing it into subdirectories depending on the function.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
