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Re: RFC: MIPS clones without lwl/lwr/swl/swr

Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> 
> >>I've no strong opinions about that, but I don't see any need to
> >>shorten "patent-free" to "patfree".
> >
> >
> >-m{,no-}patent-free is ok IMHO. For convenience there should also be a
> >-march=rtl8181 switch which implies the patent free mode.
> 
> Chiming in randomly, I actually think an option focusing on the 
> patented-ness of these instructions is not the best choice.  What if 
> there are more some day, or the patent gets invalidated, or the user 
> doesn't know about the patent?  How about -mno-<something>-load-store?

Agreed. -mno-partial-load-store ?


Thiemo
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