Please pull from 'for_paulus' branch
Alan Modra
amodra at bigpond.net.au
Sat Jun 30 20:57:41 EST 2007
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 04:57:48PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Andreas Schwab writes:
>
> > The assembler should be called with -a64, which has the effect of
> > defaulting to -mppc64.
>
> Yes, the assembler is called with -a64, but that doesn't appear to
> have the effect of defaulting to -mppc64.
>
> [Alan: this thread is about the fact that compiling C code with "gcc
> -m64 -mcpu=powerpc64" will give assembler errors, complaining about
> instructions like sldi, whereas compiling with "gcc -m64" doesn't.]
Eh? For a long time, powerpc gcc has passed "-many" to the assembler,
which should avoid this sort of problem. Broken toolchain, I'd say.
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Alan Modra
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