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Re: Assembling Power instructions: dcbtst/dcbt.
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>
- To: Paralkar Anmol-B07584 <B07584 at freescale dot com>
- Cc: Peter Bergner <bergner at vnet dot ibm dot com>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 12:20:14 +0930
- Subject: Re: Assembling Power instructions: dcbtst/dcbt.
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 10:57:48PM +0000, Paralkar Anmol-B07584 wrote:
> > Do you mean something over and above the -m<CPU> option?
>
> Yes, orthogonal to -m<CPU> although, a colleague suggested: --isa-environment
> instead.
I don't see much benefit in doing this, so the question becomes: Are
you willing to implement this yourself? That means going through the
opcodes table and verifying instructions are enabled correctly at each
ISA level, and dealing with the inevitable bug reports that will
follow.
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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM