GAS .fpu directive

Peter Bergner bergner@vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 20 16:51:00 GMT 2014


On Wed, 2014-08-20 at 17:22 +0100, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> Actually, I can think of use cases for this 'feature'.  Consider a
> function that will only be called when it is known that an ISA extension
> is present (specifically, Neon).  We then might want most of the code to
> be marked as no-neon, but then to enable Neon for that function only.

I also forgot about GCC's function specific optimization support
which would require this:

  https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/FunctionSpecificOpt

Peter





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