Should -march=iwmmxt work?
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 17:55:00 GMT 2003
Hi Daniel,
> So is this patch OK?
> 2003-07-22 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
>
> * config/tc-arm.c (arm_archs): Add iwmmxt.
Yes - please apply it.
> I'm not sure why -march=xscale defaults to VFP (soft) and
> -mcpu=xscale defaults to VFP_V2 (hard, right?), but I maintained
> consistency.
It is probably OK either way. The important thing is to select the
VFP floating-point format in order to get the layout of doubles
correct. The iWMMXt does not have floating point hardware, so the
compiler should never be generating FP instructions for it.
Cheers
Nick
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