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Re: [RS6000] Don't pass -many to the assembler
On Nov 13, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Peter Bergner <bergner@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/13/18 12:06 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote:
>> As far as I expect, Darwin should be untouched by this - we have a separate assembler (which doesn’t even respond to -many), so unless there’s some higher level translation done (it’s not mentioned in any Darwin specs), we should just carry on as before.
>
> Ah, good then.
>
>> When I do expect things to change is when multiple .machine directives are included in asm sources.
>> (probably) the old cctools assembler won’t deal with them properly
>
> Usually when there are multiple .machine's being used, they should be used
> with the ".machine push" and ".machine pop" directives so the temporary
> .machine value doesn't corrupt the .machine value being used for the rest
> of the file.
> Hopefully the cctools supports that.
Likely not. The modern tools don't for x86_64.