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Re: add vulcan support to gas
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Virendra Pathak <virendra dot pathak at broadcom dot com>, Marcus Shawcroft <marcus dot shawcroft at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Syed Faisal Akber <faisal at akber dot net>, "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Virendra Kumar Pathak <kumarvir dot pathak at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 14:20:42 +0100
- Subject: Re: add vulcan support to gas
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Hi Virendra,
> gas/ChangeLog:
> Virendra Pathak <virendra.pathak@broadcom.com>
>
> * config/tc-aarch64.c (aarch64_cpus): Add vulcan.
> * doc/c-aarch64.texi: Document that vulcan is a valid processor name.
Approved and applied. Thanks for contributing this patch.
>From your original posting:
> Keeping this in mind, do we still need to add -mcpu=vulcan support to
> gas, given that many armv8-a vendors have done it?
Yes. Assembly level programmers may wish to generate their own gas command
lines. Plus it is entirely possible that one day gcc might pass the -mcpu
option on to gas.
Cheers
Nick