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Re: [AArch64] Add ARMv8.2 command line option and feature flag.
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Matthew Wahab <matthew dot wahab at foss dot arm dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2015 16:31:21 +0100
- Subject: Re: [AArch64] Add ARMv8.2 command line option and feature flag.
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> On 18 Nov 2015, at 16:14, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus.shawcroft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 18 November 2015 at 11:25, Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@foss.arm.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> ARMv8.2 is an architectural extension of ARMv8. This patch adds an
>> architecture feature macro for ARMv8.2 to the binutils AArch64 target
>> with GAS command line option -march=armv8.2-a.
>>
>> Tested aarch64-none-linux-gnu with cross-compiled check-binutils and
>> check-gas. Checked the HTML documentation in Firefox.
>>
>> Ok for trunk?
>> Matthew
>>
>> gas/
>> 2015-11-18 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
>>
>> * config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_archs): Add "armv8.2-a".
>> * doc/c-aarch64.texi (-march): Likewise.
>>
>> include/opcode/
>> 2015-11-18 Matthew Wahab <matthew.wahab@arm.com>
>>
>> * aarch64.h (AARCH64_FEATURE_V8_2): New.
>> (AARCH64_ARCH_V8_2): New.
>
> OK for trunk.
>
> Tristan, can we backport this to 2.26 please?
Yes.