[PATCH] H8: Set H8/300H as the default architecture for H8 family

[Jan Beulich]

On 10.07.2026 11:47, Jan Dubiec wrote:
> On 10.07.2026 09:04, Jan Beulich wrote:
> [...]> Imo NEW entries should be added for both gas/ and ld/.
> Do you mean something like this:

Almost; I'd ...

>   gas/NEWS | 5 +++++
>   ld/NEWS  | 5 +++++
>   2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
> index 38928ab83ff..5f752169f86 100644
> --- a/gas/NEWS
> +++ b/gas/NEWS
> @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@
>   * Add support for RISC-V vendor extensions:
>     SpacemiT: xsmtvdot v1.0, xsmtvdotii v1.0.
> 
> +* Change the default architecture for H8 family from H8/300 to H8/300H.
> +  Support for H8/300 was removed from gcc in 2020, making H8/300H the
> +  default architecture. The mismatch between the default architectures
> +  used by gcc and gas/ld caused some ld test cases to fail.

... suggest to omit the last sentence (also from ld/NEWS).

Jan