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Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Allow ISA subsets to be disabled
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Alex Bradbury <asb at asbradbury dot org>, Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:22:53 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] RISC-V: Allow ISA subsets to be disabled
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Hi Alex,
> It's a shame gcc and as are inconsistent in their argument handling in
> this way, at least on x86-64.
Agreed.
I had always thought that a later option overriding an earlier option was
standard behaviour, but when I checked the gcc documentation I could not
find any specific requirement for this. I was quite surprised. Personally
I think that gcc is wrong. To my mind it is intuitive that a later option
would override an earlier one. If it does not then the tool concerned, at
the very least, ought to issue a warning message that the later option is
being ignored.
So, in summary - I think that this is a gcc bug, not a binutils bug.
Cheers
Nick