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Re: More i386 architectures?
On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:17:35PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> > + strcpy (p, cpu_arch_name);
>
> I wonder what cpu_arch_name is. Hmm, "i8086", ....., "sledgehammer",
> ... One thought is to use names found in archures so that GDB can
> continue to use BFD to do lookups etc on them. Another is to formalize
> the interface to that table. Either way the objective is to provide a
> consistent namespace across GAS, OBJDUMP and GDB.
My idea with the note was to provide more detail than the existing bfd
architecture info does.
> If the user specifies an option something like -mi8066, does that also
> set cpu_arch_name and hence select the architecture?
No. Most current assembly won't even emit the note as you only get it
if the source has a .arch directive.
> W.r.t. linking, if there were multiple .note sections then they would be
> concatenated (in command line order)?
Yes.