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Re: --target=thumb-elf

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
Cc: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 29 Nov 2004 11:55:12 -0500
Subject: Re: --target=thumb-elf
References: <000e01c4d607$9235c8d0$0bbda8c0@Kindrogan><1101730387.1585.10.camel@pc960.cambridge.arm.com><41AB5482.3090402@redhat.com>

Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> >>gas/configure.in, but configure produces an error: "configure: error: GAS
> >>does not support target CPU thumb" because gas/config/tc-thumb.c does not
> >>exist. Should thumb-elf be a supported target? I'm using binutils-2.15.
> 
> > Thumb support is rolled into the arm-elf configuration.
> 
> 
> We probably ought to make the thumb-* targets obsolete.  What do you
> think ?  In fact we could probably throw in the strongarm-* and
> xscale-*
> targets as well...

I don't think we should do that unless we first port the --with-cpu
configure option, and friends, to gas.  For people who use XScale, it
is convenient for the tools to default to the XScale architecture.

Ian

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