Re: --target=thumb-elf

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 16:55, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 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

I'm not too worried about keeping the StrongARM, XScale and ep9312 ports
as separate configurations.  They're a bit of a pain from a
maintenance/testsuite point of view (since none of them match arm*-*-*),
but I guess I can live with that, at least in the short term.

R.