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PATCH: Support "-march=armv6j", not "-march=armv6"

Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 08:54:00 GMT 2003 
Hi Mark,

> This patch makes GAS match GCC with respect to the V6 "-march="
> option.  GCC spells it "-march=armv6j", so now so does GAS.

> It's my understand that all V6 cores have the Jazelle extensions.
> Still, It's possible that we should add "-march=armv6" as a synonym to
> both GCC and GAS.  Richard, do you have thoughts about that?

IMHO - I think that we should support both spellings, even if only for
consistency purposes.  (We already accept -march=armv5 and
-march=armv4, and as far as I know there are no v5 cores without Thumb
support).

> I committed this patch after testing a Linux kernel build; is that
> overstepping my authority in the land of binutils?

Well in this case I think that the change is not quite "obvious" so I
would have preferred to have finished this discussion before you
committed the patch, but it is hardly a serious breach of etiquette.

Cheers
        Nick
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