Re: ARM BE8 linker support

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 07:23:57PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote:
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 12:32, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > I've just realized that there are a couple of omissions from this patch
> > (there's no need to back it out, but I think they would be best addressed
> > while the patch is fresh in your mind):
> >
> > BE8 mode should really only be possible for EABI v3 or later images.
> 
> Ok. Does this include the GNU EABI? ie. should it be extended to include BE8?
> 
> > It ought to be possible to create a configuration where BE8 mode is the
> > default (assuming a big-endian object file)...
> 
> Does this mean making a new pseudo-target, eg. armbe8-elf, in the same way we 
> have armeb-elf which defaults to be32 objects?
> 
> If this were gcc I'd probably suggest something equivalent to -mabi=, and the 
> associated --with-abi= configure switch. There doesn't seem to be the same 
> precedent for this in binutils/ld though.

Do we need to make gas default to this, or would it be enough to make
GCC have a mode where it passes the right arguments to gas by default? 
That's what most other targets seem to do.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer