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egcs pa 2.0 support
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: egcs pa 2.0 support
- From: "Jerry Quinn" <jquinn at nortelnetworks dot com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:45:53 -0400
- CC: egcs <egcs at cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Nortel Technology
- References: <22077.923689436@upchuck>
Since you've added my pa 2.0 instructions into gas, is it OK for me to
submit the egcs patches to use them?
Jeff, I know you lean to having a -mpa-risc-2-0 flag to enable 2.0
stuff. I have a concern about doing this. We agreed that there would
be a second flag bit for 2.0. The problem is what happens if someone
puts more than one architecture switch on the command line, for example,
-mpa-risc-2-0 -mpa-risc-1-1. The current flag processing allows you to
switch bits on or switch them off. But if we want the second flag to
override the first, the -mpa-risc-1-1 flag would have to switch one bit
on and the other off at the same time.
I think an -march=<arch> switch makes for a cleaner way to specify this,
since we can more easily twiddle the flags in the override_flags
function. Also, several architectures already look like this (arm,
i386, sparc).
Jerry
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