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Re: GAS: Handling option parsing for ARM co-processor extensions
- From: Phil Blundell <pb at nexus dot co dot uk>
- To: Richard dot Earnshaw at arm dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 15 Jan 2002 12:06:09 +0000
- Subject: Re: GAS: Handling option parsing for ARM co-processor extensions
- References: <200201151128.LAA10367@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com>
On Tue, 2002-01-15 at 11:28, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> I've been thinking a bit about how we should handle the option parsing for
> various ARM co-processor extensions. Currently we have the highly bogus
> situation where -marm9e is used to mean "add the Cirrus Maverick
> instructions": it's bogus because arm9e is a real cpu variant from ARM.
Can we not just rename -marm9e to -mmaverick or something? That would
match the existing options for XScale, FPA and so on.
I don't have any particular objection to your "-marm9+maverick"
proposal, though.
p.