Maintainers file patch for M68HC1x port.

[Sean Keys]

Again, It's not about how you or I currently use the tools, it's about desired/possible usage by all.

When I have some extra time I'll hunt for an example from Freescale. Even better, if one doesn't exist, and I never said that one definitely did, I will create one. Then we can say that binutils does something that the commercial tools don't.

-Sean


On 07/24/2012 02:03 PM, James Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 13:49 -0700, Sean Keys wrote:
>> The bulk of your patch was for XGATE support within the HC1x tools, not
>> fixes or additions to the port itself.
> Erm? What about the addition of the S12X instruction support, objdump
> output enhancements and HC11, HC12 testcase fixes ? Those all sound very
> much like fixes and additions to the port itself.
>
>>   >( I'm still not sure I can think
>>   >of a case where a symbol would be created in XGATE space..
>>
>> It's a valid and reasonable use case, therefore in my opinion it should
>> be left up to the developer. I ran the existing test-suite to make sure
>> it was harmless to existing usage, of course.
> My question was based on the fact that I've not used it that way. (Isn't
> asking questions and peer review a core part of open source software
> such as binutils?) In my application all the variables are defined in
> the S12 code and the XGATE code links against them.
> Could you point me to the Freescale datasheet that you mentioned so I
> can have a look at what they are doing.
>
> regards
>
> James