Re: [PATCH] Disable warning about -mcpu

[Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>]

Ok, I'm not going to approve this one as it is a policy decision for all of
binutils.  I'd prefer to leave it in, but I'd rather have Nick give a
comment on whether or not he wants it.

-eric

> this disables warnings about the use of -mcpu=FOO. The idea of it
> was to bring people away from using this to-be-deprecated option,
> but ATM it is an senseless obstacle to anyone who needs to use
> released gcc with a new assembler.
> 
> 
> Thiemo
> 
> 
> 2001-09-07  Thiemo Seufer  <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
> 	/gas/ChangeLog
> 	* config/tc-mips.c (md_begin): Disable warning about deprecated
> 	-mcpu option.
> 
> 
> diff -BurpNX /bigdisk/src/binutils-exclude src-orig/gas/config/tc-mips.c src/gas/config/tc-mips.c
> --- src-orig/gas/config/tc-mips.c	Fri Aug 31 22:00:08 2001
> +++ src/gas/config/tc-mips.c	Thu Sep  6 21:58:05 2001
> @@ -995,6 +1044,9 @@ md_begin ()
>  		  "Use -march instead of -mcpu."));
>      }
>  
> +  /* We should warn about deprecated -mcpu, but gcc 3.0 needs it.
> +     Commented out for now.  */
> +#if 0
>    if (mips_arch == CPU_UNKNOWN && mips_cpu != CPU_UNKNOWN)
>      {
>        ci = mips_cpu_info_from_cpu (mips_cpu);
> @@ -1003,6 +1055,7 @@ md_begin ()
>        as_warn (_("The -mcpu option is deprecated.  Please use -march and "
>  		 "-mtune instead."));
>      }
> +#endif
>  
>    /* At this point, mips_arch will either be CPU_UNKNOWN if no ARCH was
>       specified on the command line, or some other value if one was.
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