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Re: ARM patches applied


>I don't know.  That's why I added Phil to the Cc: list.  Phil, any 
>comments?

I think it should be OK.  I can't think of anything in particular that's 
likely to break and as you mentioned yesterday I'd like to move the Linux ABI 
towards full ATPCS conformance.  

>That might help to tidy up some of the internal code (though it some ways 
>it obfuscates what is happening); but it still misses my point, which is 
>that the user option -mshort-load-bytes is an inaccurate description of 
>what really happens and why we do it.

Agreed.  I get a fairly regular stream of requests from people who want to use 
it to suppress ldrh/strh on StrongARM machines where the bus doesn't support 
16-bit accesses (Acorn RiscPCs usually).

p.




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