Re: Rename -mfix-vr4122-bugs to -mfix-vr4120.

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:41:13AM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> writes:
> > Richard Sandiford wrote:
> >> I'd like to change the name of -mfix-vr4122-bugs to -mfix-vr4120.  Reasons:
> >> 
> >>   (1) Some of the workarounds selected by -mfix-vr4122-bugs also apply to the
> >>       VR4181 (which, like the VR4122, uses a VR4120 core).
> >> 
> >>   (2) VR4120 code is selected by -march=vr4120, not -march=vr4122.
> >> 
> >>   (3) It's more consistent with the options recently added to GCC,
> >>       e.g. -mfix-sb1, -mfix-r4000.
> >> 
> >>   (4) There are some errata that (AIUI) only apply to the version of the
> >>       VR4120 that's used in the VR4181.  "Some time soon", I'll be submitting
> >>       a patch to cover these errata too.
> >> 
> >> I think the only obvious argument against is backwards compability.
> >> However, as the documentation says, the option is only really intended
> >> for use with the equivalen gcc option, and since that option was only
> >> recently added to FSF HEAD, there shouldn't really be much problem.
> >> 
> >> Tested on mips{,64}{,el}-elf, etc.  OK to install?
> >
> > Ok.
> 
> Thanks.  Is it ok for 2.15 as well?

If you think it's safe, I won't object.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer