objdump for old ARM7TDMI (ARMv4T) showing instructions for newer architectures?!

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Chris,

> Hello!  I care about the success of GNU very much 

Thanks very much for supporting the GNU Project.

> and wanted some feedback on
> what to do about a potential bug in objdump for ARM....

The best thing to do is to file a bug report here:

   http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

> I'm examining the output of "objdump -D --target=binary -m arm7tdmi" and seeing
> instructions that do not exist on the ancient ARM7TDMI cores.

> Is this a genuine bug or must I use different switches.

It is a genuine bug.

Have a go with the attached patch and see if it fixes the problem for you.

Cheers
   Nick
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