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sh64-elf (SH5) port: directory opcodes

Andrew Cagney ac131313@cygnus.com
Thu Feb 7 21:22:00 GMT 2002 
> On 5 Feb 2002, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
>> On Feb  5, 2002, Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> wrote:
> 
>> > Anyway, if you always include support for all the SH variants, does
>> > anything break?
> 
>>
>> Probably not, since --enable-targets=all works.
> 
> 
> Though you'd bloat binutils for people with sh[1-4] only.  Some
> SH targets run native in limited systems, I've heard.  Can we
> ignore the bloat issue?


Is this a generic problem?  Most of the small systems - MIPS, mn10300, 
sh, ... would all need to be tuned for small systems.


> Maybe let sh-elf imply bfd+opcodes for sh[1-5] and leave
> sh[1-4][hl]* the way it is?
> 
> (Including opcodes but not bfd seems useless.  You can't get a
> sh5 bfd, so you can't (without tricks) invoke the disassembler
> AFAICT.)


By default having all of them is significantly better (I think).  It 
would also better integrate into GDB.

enjoy,
Andrew
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