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Re: ARM Neon Tests Failing on non-Neon Target
On Fri, 30 Apr 2010, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > For EABI, this is done
> > with .cpu, .arch and .fpu directives; for non-EABI you may need to write
> > specs to pass command-line options to the assembler. Creating an
> > arm-rtemseabi or similar target and obsoleting the old-ABI version is what
> > I'd suggest. (Having the target not named *eabi* will make various
> > testcases not run for it; it's unfortunate enough that EABI testcases need
> > to match both arm*-*-*eabi* and arm*-*-symbianelf which is an existing
> > EABI target not matching *eabi*.)
>
> Is there any reason to stick with arm-elf as the basis for
> arm-rtems? It looks like arm-eabi is more generally used
> and thus more tested and better supported.
My advice is that arm-rtems become a deprecated target like arm-elf and
arm-linux, and that arm-rtemseabi be the new EABI-based target.
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