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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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