[WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices
Gerald Pfeifer
gerald@pfeifer.com
Sun Feb 28 21:20:00 GMT 2016
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote:
> I propose to commit this patch later this week.
+ Support for revisions of the ARM architecture prior to ARMv4t has
+ been deprecated and will be removed in a future GCC release.
+ This affects ARM6, ARM7 (but not ARM7TDMI), ARM8, StrongARM, and
+ Faraday fa526 and fa626 devices, which do not have support for
+ the Thumb execution state.
I am wondering whether this may be confusing for those not
intricately familiar with the older history of ARM platforms.
ARMv8 is pretty new, googling for it has
http://www.arm.com/products/processors/armv8-architecture.php
as first hit, for example, and the only difference versus ARM8
is that little lower-case "v".
Gerald
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