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Re: Convert legacy m68k options to .opt aliases
On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:04:37PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> Similar to <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-04/msg00265.html>,
> this patch converts legacy m68k options for non-ColdFire CPUs into
> aliases for the corresponding -mcpu= options. (Note that -mcpu32 is
While I agree with the CF change, I am sceptical with the m68k case.
> an alias for -mcpu=68332 rather than -mcpu=cpu32, to match the old
> code in m68k_handle_option.) This significantly simplifies the
> multilibs code in t-mlibs, since it no longer needs to handle those
> old-style options (and all cases where two -mcpu= options get the same
> multilib are already handled by the generic logic there rather than
> needing to be listed specially). The requirement for binutils 2.17 or
> later (to support these options to the assembler) is documented.
I am using m68k-amigos which is not part of the official sources. Since
this target is only about m68k it was no problem to use old(er) binutils
versions. Especially if a target cares only about m68k I would like to
see the legacy m68k options retained.
Regards,
Gunther Nikl