ARMV7a: selected processor does not support requested special purpose register

[Richard Earnshaw]

On 03/10/2022 16:48, Richard Earnshaw via Binutils wrote:
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> On 03/10/2022 15:41, Umesh Kalappa via Binutils wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We have problem to compile the following asm
>> https://godbolt.org/z/hejMPoW69
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>> and asm error out with the subject message .
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>> Is mrs for float special register not valid on cortex-a9 ?
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>> Thank you
>> ~Umesh
> 
> that's because the instruction you want is
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> vmrs r4, fpscr
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> R.

Also note that the fmrrs mnemonic is not part of the UAL (unified 
assembly language) specification - it was deprecated a long time ago. 
The correct names these days all start with a V - the disassembler 
output shows the modern form.

The legacy name for vmrs was fmrx.

R.