ARM BE8 linker support

[Richard Earnshaw]

On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 12:21, Paul Brook wrote:
> > > Do we need to make gas default to this, or would it be enough to make
> > > GCC have a mode where it passes the right arguments to gas by default?
> > > That's what most other targets seem to do.
> >
> > I think it needs to be possible to make GAS default to this in some
> > circumstances.  Otherwise it will do the wrong thing if you invoke the
> > assembler directly and don't put an option on the command line.
> 
> Just to be clear, it is ld which needs this option. The assembler doesn't 
> know/care if the final image is be8 or be32.

Indeed.  However, I was thinking in terms of general marking of the
objects as being EABI compliant.

R.