Add support to the ARC disassembler for selecting instruction classes.

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / doc / binutils.texi

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 5a564efd665884d936d4685c3993c505b6a37eb4..6038c72a8aab9797e80471dc9f2aa7d7d5ae722b 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -1321,8 +1321,9 @@ such as @option{-L}.
 
 @item -L @var{symbolname}
 @itemx --localize-symbol=@var{symbolname}
-Make symbol @var{symbolname} local to the file, so that it is not
-visible externally.  This option may be given more than once.
+Convert a global or weak symbol called @var{symbolname} into a local
+symbol, so that it is not visible externally.  This option may be
+given more than once.  Note - unique symbols are not converted.
 
 @item -W @var{symbolname}
 @itemx --weaken-symbol=@var{symbolname}
@@ -2239,6 +2240,27 @@ some targets.  If it is necessary to specify more than one
 disassembler option then multiple @option{-M} options can be used or
 can be placed together into a comma separated list.
 
+For the ARC architecture the option can be used to specify the extra
+instruction classes that should be disassembled.  A comma separated
+list of one or more of the following values should be used:
+
+@table @code
+@item dsp
+Recognize DSP instructions.
+@item spfp
+Recognize FPX SP instructions.
+@item dpfp
+Recognize FPX DP instructions.
+@item quarkse_em
+Recognize FPU QuarkSE-EM instructions.
+@item fpuda
+Recognize double assist FPU instructions.
+@item fpus
+Recognize single precision FPU instructions.
+@item fpud
+Recognize double precision FPU instructions.
+@end table
+
 If the target is an ARM architecture then this switch can be used to
 select which register name set is used during disassembler.  Specifying
 @option{-M reg-names-std} (the default) will select the register names as
@@ -2366,6 +2388,15 @@ ROM dumps).  In these cases, the function entry mask would otherwise
 be decoded as VAX instructions, which would probably lead the rest
 of the function being wrongly disassembled.
 
+For ARC, @option{dsp} controls the printing of DSP instructions,
+@option{spfp} selects the printing of FPX single precision FP
+instructions, @option{dpfp} selects the printing of FPX double
+precision FP instructions, @option{quarkse_em} selects the printing of
+special QuarkSE-EM instructions, @option{fpuda} selects the printing
+of double precision assist instructions, @option{fpus} selects the
+printing of FPU single precision FP instructions, while @option{fpud}
+selects the printing of FPU souble precision FP instructions.
+
 @item -p
 @itemx --private-headers
 Print information that is specific to the object file format.  The exact