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Re: CPSR changes to ARM binutils in the mainline...
- To: Philip Blundell <Philip dot Blundell at pobox dot com>
- Subject: Re: CPSR changes to ARM binutils in the mainline...
- From: Scott Bambrough <scottb at netwinder dot org>
- Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:05:01 -0400
- CC: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>, binutils mailing list <binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Organization: Rebel.com
- References: <392E7CC5.C4D29BA8@netwinder.org> <E12vfPa-0000lu-00@kings-cross.london.uk.eu.org>
Philip Blundell wrote:
>
> My preference (for both branch and trunk) would actually be to issue a warning
> rather than an error for these sorts of instructions. This is more consistent
> with how the assembler handles other syntactically correct but invalid
> instructions.
The instructions it refuses to compile are not syntactically correct AFAIK. I
think earlier assemblers were to lax.
> Anyway, applying the patch to the branch is OK so long as there is mention in
> NEWS of the change. The previous release accepted these instructions so the
> change needs to be documented.
Agreed. I'll add an item to NEWS.
Scott
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