Re: m68k-elf-as

Re: m68k-elf-as

[Aaron J. Grier]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:13:27PM -0500, Peter Barada wrote:

> > >How would I have found that? It's not in the MCF5272UM.
> > >"m68k-elf-as --help" doesn't mention it. A Google search for
> > >"m68k-elf-as rambar0" comes up empty. What document am I missing?
> >
> >rambar is not the correct name for the coldfire series.  It's
> >actually rambar0:
> 
> What I should have said is "rambar is not the correct name of the
> 'rambar' register in the GNU assembler.  rambar0 is what you want."
> 
> To find it, you have to look at the gnu assembler sources (in the
> binutils package).  See http:/sourceware.cygnus.com/binutils/ for a
> pointer to the source. 

could these details be added to the M68K-Dependent section of the gas
documentation?  (alternately, would anyone complain if a diff showed
up?)

it seems kind of rediculous to have to defer to the source for such
basic concepts as register naming conventions.

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