possible powerpc 40x problem in 2.12

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Feb 28 22:42:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 06:33:33PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> Ugh.  GCC 3.x also passes -mppc in response to -mcpu=403.  I believe
> the root of this is the fact that the instruction is assembled
> differently on PowerPC and BookE processors (although I can't see
> evidence of that in opcodes/ppc-dis.c...).

Yes, the change requiring -m403 was checked in 2001-10-12 as part of
mrg's booke patch.  Before that, there was no PPC_OPCODE_403.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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