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Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
To: Bernardo Innocenti <bernie at develer dot com>
Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 12:16:34 +0200
Subject: Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
References: <200307051523.01329.bernie@develer.com><200307071511.42868.bernie@develer.com><20030707133500.GA6094@lorien.int.gecko.de><200307080806.11310.bernie@develer.com>

Bernardo Innocenti <bernie@develer.com> writes:

|> I'm using binutils-2.14.90.0.4 on the ColdFire. I don't know when
|> the Motorola syntax has been introduced, but it must be almost ten
|> years ago because Linux-m68k has always been using that, AFAIK.

The very first compiler for Linux/m68k used the MIT syntax as inherited by
the sun3 configuration (we started with a.out).  The Motorola syntax only
came into play with the switch to ELF (which happend in 1995).

Andreas.

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References:
- Cleanups for the m68k backend
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti
- Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti
- Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
  - From: Gunther Nikl
- Re: Cleanups for the m68k backend
  - From: Bernardo Innocenti

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