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How to proceed on the Thumb-2 assembler patches?
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery dot com>, Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 23:20:47 -0700
- Subject: How to proceed on the Thumb-2 assembler patches?
I'm not sure how best to proceed to get the Thumb-2 assembler patches
checked into mainline binutils. (To remind, they are already present
on binutils-csl-arm-2005q1-branch - so if anyone wants to play with
the modified assembler without applying all seventy-odd patches, you
can get it from there.)
It seems to me that it should all be checked in at once, because the
intermediate stages are not that interesting and some of them contain
false starts and/or flat-out bugs. Assuming that that is an
acceptable procedure, I then have two questions for the team:
1) Are there any objections at the design or principle level to the
changes I have made?
2) Are there any outstanding issues which need to be fixed before the
patch series goes into mainline? I would prefer to keep this set
to the minimum - basically only issues which affect use of the
assembler for plain old ARM or Thumb code generation, or somehow
affect other targets than arm-*-*.
zw