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Re: CPSR changes to ARM binutils in the mainline...


Philip Blundell wrote:
> 
> My preference (for both branch and trunk) would actually be to issue a warning
> rather than an error for these sorts of instructions.  This is more consistent
> with how the assembler handles other syntactically correct but invalid
> instructions.

The instructions it refuses to compile are not syntactically correct AFAIK.  I
think earlier assemblers were to lax.

> Anyway, applying the patch to the branch is OK so long as there is mention in
> NEWS of the change.  The previous release accepted these instructions so the
> change needs to be documented.

Agreed.  I'll add an item to NEWS.

Scott

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