Re: .machine for Darwin, new cctools required

[Stan Shebs <shebs at apple dot com>]

Geoffrey Keating wrote:

> This patch uses the new .machine directive in the Darwin assembler to
> say which instruction set is to be used, which lets me get rid of the
> workaround using -force_cpusubtype_ALL, and fixes a collection of bugs
> of the form 'if I use this combination of flags, the assembler refuses
> to assemble GCC's output', some of which were being worked around in
> the testsuite.
>
> This patch requires a further updated cctools to work properly.  You
> can get it from
> <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/cctools-528.5.tar.bz2> in
> source form, and an installable package at
> <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/cctools-528.5.dmg>.
Ideally this would all be conditional on cctools version, but
failing that, it would be helpful to mention this dependency in
the building-from-source docs.

Stan