possible powerpc 40x problem in 2.12

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Fri Mar 1 15:41:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:06:04PM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 11:39:34AM -0600, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > >
> > > and should be changed to
> > >
> > > %{mcpu=403: -m403} \
> > > %{mcpu=405: -m405} \
> > >
> > > Right?
> > >
> > > Also gcc does not appear to know anything about the -m74xx set of
> > > switches.  Should it?  I know RTEMS uses inline assembly that
> > > makes this matter sometimes.
> > 
> > Yes, it probably should... these changes should wait until 2.12 is
> > released, as they add a dependency on the existence of those flags.
> > Ugh.
> 
> Double ugh.  Since gcc 3.0.4 was just released. 

gas recognized -m7410, -m7450 and -m7455 after 2001-10-12
-m405 after 2000-08-30
-m7400 after 2000-05-03

so the -m403/405 change to gcc only requires binutils-2.11  A pity this
change didn't make it into gcc-3.0.4.  gcc-3.1 will soon be released...

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre



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