Re: tool for ISA usage statistics within ELF binaries?
Package: lintian
Severity: wishlist
Control: retitle -1 lintian: check ISA used in binaries
On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 5:18 AM Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> wrote:
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> On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 04:27:12PM +0000, Mo Zhou wrote:
> > Hi mentors,
> >
> > do you know if there is a static ELF analysing tool, that makes
> > statistics on the usage of different ISAs? maybe something on top
> > of a disassembler?
> >
> > actually, I'd like to know if an ELF binary has got more, say
> > AVX instructions after recompiling with -march=native,
> > -ftree-vectorization, -O3, etc.
>
> No check for AVX yet, but a quick hack that may be useful to you is attached
> to: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/08/msg00200.html
>
I think this could be added to lintian.
lintian could give a warning if the generated binaries break ISA baseline.
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Shengjing Zhu
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