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- What is Mapping Symbol? This proposal add a new special symbol class, called mapping symbol, those symbol are used for assist disassembler to having better knowledge of binary, it could be used for distinguish the code and data region. Here is two kind of mapping symbol: data and instruction, and both having an optional extra part in the symbol name for carry extra information. Symbol Name | Meaning :---------- | :----------------------------------------------------------- $d | Start of a sequence of data. $x | Start of a sequence of instructions. $x<ISA> | Start of a sequence of instructions with <ISA> extension. Mapping symbol are also used by other ISA for same purpose, like ARM, AArch64, C-sky and nds32. - Data Mapping Symbol Data mapping symbol could having an extra length information to present the orignal data layout. e.g. ``` .foo: .word 10 .word 20 ``` Without mapping symbol: ``` $ riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc foo.s -c $ riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc foo.o -c Disassembly of section .text: 0000000000000000 <.foo>: 0: 000a c.slli zero,0x2 2: 0000 unimp 4: 0014 0x14 ... ``` With mapping symbol: ``` Disassembly of section .text: 00000000 <.foo>: # $d insert here. 0: 0000000a .word 0x0000000a 4: 00000014 .word 0x00000014 ``` - Instruction Mapping Symbol Instruction mapping symbol with extra ISA info could also used for ifunc, e.g. library are built with `rv64gc`, but few functions like memcpy provide two version, one built with `rv64gc`, and one built with `rv64gcv`, and select by ifunc mechanism at run-time; however the arch attribute is recording for minimal execution environment requirement, so the ISA information from arch attribute isn't enough for disassembler to disassemble the `rv64gcv` version correctly.
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