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Re: How to proceed on the Thumb-2 assembler patches?


On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 09:10:39AM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> 
> >> Do you want the whole validator now, or just rejection of conditional
> >> suffixes in classic Thumb mode?  The former is quite a bit of code.
> >
> > I have no idea.  It seems to me that we aren't in a desparate hurry to
> > merge this code to mainline; why not wait until it is finished, since
> > it is already so large?
> 
> Um, no, actually, I am in a hurry to merge this to mainline; the
> larger the patch set gets, the harder it gets to work on outside the
> tree.  If, for instance, someone decided to rip out ARM_OLD_ABI
> (which, on the merits, should happen) I'd be in a world of hurt.

OK, that makes sense.  I would want at least the rejection of invalid
classic Thumb.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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