GAS: Handling option parsing for ARM co-processor extensions

[Phil Blundell]

On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 13:03, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> IMO, selecting the 
> instruction set to assemble for should be just one flag that allows you to 
> fully describe what you want: -m<base-cpu>+<option> allows for that.

Yeah, I guess that's reasonable. 

> Hm, except that when it does become important there will be a much larger 
> user base, so the resistance to change will become greater.  However, I'm 
> not sure what I would rename it to...

Well, the name of the processor itself seems to just be "Intel 80200".
(see http://developer.intel.com/design/iio/datashts/273414.htm for
example).  So you could introduce "-m80200" or something, even if
initially just as a synonym for "-mxscale".

p.