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Re: gas thunderx support
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
- To: Jim Wilson <jim dot wilson at linaro dot org>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 16:19:58 -0700
- Subject: Re: gas thunderx support
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Jim Wilson <jim.wilson@linaro.org> wrote:
> I noticed an inconsistency between gas and gcc. The gcc
> config/aarch64/aarch64-cores.def file says that thunderx has crc and
> crypto support. The gas config/tc-aarch64.c file says it doesn't.
> Andrew Pinski recentlly posted some thunderx /proc/cpuinfo output on
> the gcc list that makes it clear that thunderx does have crc and
> crypto support. So gas needs to be fixed.
>
> This was tested by using some gcc testsuite test cases to generate
> assembly files with crc and crypto instructions, and noting that they
> would not assemble when using ".cpu thunderx" without the patch, but
> they do assemble with the patch.
This is ok from my pointer of view. Sorry I did not do it myself but
I have been busy with some other projects such as HHVM.
Thanks,
Andrew
>
> Jim