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Re: ARM patches applied
- To: richard dot earnshaw at arm dot com
- Subject: Re: ARM patches applied
- From: Philip Blundell <pb at nexus dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:56:10 +0000
- cc: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>, egcs-patches at cygnus dot com
>I don't know. That's why I added Phil to the Cc: list. Phil, any
>comments?
I think it should be OK. I can't think of anything in particular that's
likely to break and as you mentioned yesterday I'd like to move the Linux ABI
towards full ATPCS conformance.
>That might help to tidy up some of the internal code (though it some ways
>it obfuscates what is happening); but it still misses my point, which is
>that the user option -mshort-load-bytes is an inaccurate description of
>what really happens and why we do it.
Agreed. I get a fairly regular stream of requests from people who want to use
it to suppress ldrh/strh on StrongARM machines where the bus doesn't support
16-bit accesses (Acorn RiscPCs usually).
p.