This is the mail archive of the
libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
mailing list for the glibc project.
Re: [PATCH] PPC fix build break caused by VMX instructions
- From: Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 13:19:32 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC fix build break caused by VMX instructions
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> wrote on 05/25/2004 11:13:40 AM:
> Steve Munroe wrote:
>
> > The work around passes -many to the assembler for these functions. The
> > attached patch adds "-Wa,-many" to CPPFLAGS for the specific functions
> > involved.
>
> What's the history of this flag? I.e., when was it first recognized?
>
>From the gas Changelog it looks like since Oct 1995:
Mon Oct 16 07:07:37 1995 Michael Meissner <meissner@wogglebug.tiac.net>
* config/tc-ppc.c (md_begin): Use new flags PPC_OPCODE_COMMON for
-mcom support and PPC_OPCODE_ANY for -many.
Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center