FYI: -march/-mcpu patch for mips

Eric Christopher echristo@redhat.com
Fri Jun 22 23:20:00 GMT 2001


> 
> It was never meant to be backwards compatible. That is why I also
> changed some testcases. In fact, the new -march has the same
> affect as the old -mcpu. Since my Linux mips toolchain is new for
> everyone, there is no compatibility problem.
> 

It will need to be compatible for acceptance into
mainline sources.

> > 
> > You may want to issue a warning that this behavior
> > is deprecated though so that we can remove it in a
> > future version.
> 
> I will give it a try.
> 

Thanks.  If you run out of time or just get fed up let
me know and I'll apply your patch and make the final mods
myself.

-eric

-- 
I will not grease the monkey bars



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