PATCH: Support "-march=armv6j", not "-march=armv6"
Mark Mitchell
mark@codesourcery.com
Thu Dec 18 11:03:00 GMT 2003
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 00:37, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> > This patch makes GAS match GCC with respect to the V6 "-march="
> > option. GCC spells it "-march=armv6j", so now so does GAS.
>
> > It's my understand that all V6 cores have the Jazelle extensions.
> > Still, It's possible that we should add "-march=armv6" as a synonym to
> > both GCC and GAS. Richard, do you have thoughts about that?
>
> IMHO - I think that we should support both spellings, even if only for
> consistency purposes. (We already accept -march=armv5 and
> -march=armv4, and as far as I know there are no v5 cores without Thumb
> support).
Yes, what you say is true.
FWIW, I'd rather have fewer options, rather than more.
But, I don't have a very strong opinion.
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Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
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