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Re: FYI: -march/-mcpu patch for mips
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 10:17:27PM -0700, Eric Christopher wrote:
>
> > Did you mean `incompatible'? I don't see anything wrong if they
> > are simply different.
> >
> > In my patch, -march determines what instructions to use and -mcpu
> > determines how to schedule the instructions. I changed -mcpu so that
> > it wouldn't use any new instructions.
> >
>
> I was misreading your patch :)
>
> At any rate, it doesn't look backwards compatible.
> You'll need to make sure that the case where -mcpu
> is given, but -march is not is handled with -mcpu
> setting the default architecture for the assembler.
It was never meant to be backwards compatible. That is why I also
changed some testcases. In fact, the new -march has the same
affect as the old -mcpu. Since my Linux mips toolchain is new for
everyone, there is no compatibility problem.
>
> You may want to issue a warning that this behavior
> is deprecated though so that we can remove it in a
> future version.
I will give it a try.
H.J.