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Re: Deprecating config-ml.in multilib selection options
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, newlib at sourceware dot org, nickc at redhat dot com, paul at codesourcery dot com, ramana dot radhakrishnan at arm dot com, law at redhat dot com, echristo at apple dot com, rdsandiford at googlemail dot com, geoffk at geoffk dot org, dje dot gcc at gmail dot com
- Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 16:22:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: Deprecating config-ml.in multilib selection options
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103211426430.15481@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <1300718522.1056.9.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com>
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 14:36 +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> Some targets provide finer-grained control over which multilibs are
>> built
>> (e.g., @option{--disable-softfloat}):
>> @table @code
>> @item arm-*-*
>> fpu, 26bit, underscore, interwork, biendian, nofmult.
>
> I'd expect that code to be very bit-rotten for ARM. The evidence of
> this is that 26-bit mode hasn't been supported by gcc for about 5 years
> now, but nobody has cleaned up this bit of code...
Probably because that part just turned into a no-op without creating any
problems.
Andreas.
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