Selecting a ppc architecture inline

[Jeff Baker]

Forgive my ignorance :)

What is the objection to having a .set pseudo op for ppc that would accept
anything you can specify by -m on the command line?

> 
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:02:24AM -0400, Jeff Baker wrote:
> > We have some assembly code for powerpc that's mixed generic, ppc403 and
> > booke.  I know for mips you can use .set to specify the ISA in the code,
> but
> > how do I do this for ppc?
> 
> You can't with current gas.  You'd need (at least) to reinsert opcodes
> into the hash table.  See tc-ppc.c:md_begin
> 
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