[patch] RS/6000 fixes

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Thu Feb 8 16:10:00 GMT 2001


> From: Hidvegi <hzoli@austin.ibm.com>
> Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 16:00:01 -0600 (CST)
> 
> The patch below fixes the following:
> 
> config.gues: recognize POWER3 (630) as PowerPC instead of POWER
> (rs6000)

This needs to go to the config.guess maintainer, who is I think
bje@redhat.com, but it is in my opinion correct.

> config.bfd: enable coff64 for rs6000-aix-*.  This is just like coff64
>             is enabled even if the build host is 32-bit only.

This is OK.  I will apply it.

> ppc-opc.c: crset/crclr/crmove/crnot should work in power mode.
>            gcc -mpower generates these.  I've submitted a patch for
>            this about a week ago but there was no response.

>From what I can see, GCC only generates 'crnot'.  I believe that it
shouldn't be doing this, but the aix 4.1 machine here isn't letting me
log in to check.  Are you sure that the old POWER instruction format
always allowed these abbreviations?

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>


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