Re: [PATCH] Reallow unrestricted use od .set mipsX

[Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts at csv dot ica dot uni-stuttgart dot de>]

Eric Christopher wrote:
> 
> > this patch re-allows to use .set mipsX pseudo-op without getting
> > hindered by an -mgp32/-mfp32/-mabi=32 option, which currently
> > restrict register size and usable insn's over the whole file.
> > 
> > This restores the old behaviour, which is also the way
> > traditional mips assemblers work. Currently e.g. a
> > 
> > 	.set mips3
> > 
> > in a -mabi=32 file is rendered useless.
> > 
> 
> ChangeLog?  Tested on?

Argh. I noticed it 10 seconds after sending the message.
Tested for mips64-linux, mips-elf, mips64el-elf.

2001-09-07  Thiemo Seufer  <seufer@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de>
	/gas/ChangeLog
	* config/tc-mips.c (s_mipsset): Reallow unrestricted use of .set mipsX
	pseudo-op.

> It looks like it does what you say, so go ahead. Why are you changing
> the testcases though?

They contain .set mips4 at the very beginning, so they couldn't check
for working register size restriction now.


Thiemo