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Re: [PATCH] S/390: UTF conversion modules - use .insn to avoid 'as' errors

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at gmail dot com>
To: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>
Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:18:38 -0400
Subject: Re: [PATCH] S/390: UTF conversion modules - use .insn to avoid 'as' errors
References: <20110318102022.GA5262@bart> <AANLkTikXX9TVykTGg1BbxzvbrcsOnh5F3oZ2-VtuFM51@mail.gmail.com><4D99AE42.6040502@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

If it is not already available, the correct way to handle this is to
allow the asm code overwrite the instruction set selection.  Have some
push/pop pseudo ops.  Doesn't ppc have something like this?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 07:40, Andreas Krebbel
<krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> One way would be to pass -march=all to AS for this module. I've added this option just
> some weeks ago:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2011-03/msg00355.html
>
> But this would make glibc to depend on a very recent binutils version what is not
> appropriate I think.

I don't think this is a problem.  It's not as if many people are
building s390 glibcs.

References:
- Re: [PATCH] S/390: UTF conversion modules - use .insn to avoid 'as' errors
  - From: Ulrich Drepper
- Re: [PATCH] S/390: UTF conversion modules - use .insn to avoid 'as'errors
  - From: Andreas Krebbel

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