From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 545 invoked by alias); 15 Jun 2006 15:15:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 534 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Jun 2006 15:15:12 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from potter.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:15:06 +0000 Received: (qmail 14088 invoked from network); 15 Jun 2006 15:15:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 81-178-237-90.dsl.pipex.com) (paul@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 15 Jun 2006 15:15:04 -0000 From: Paul Brook To: "H. J. Lu" Subject: Re: PATCH: Add --alt-nops=short|long to x86/x86-64 assemblers Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 15:28:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, Nick Clifton References: <20060613190254.GB21884@lucon.org> <200606151544.12026.paul@codesourcery.com> <20060615150347.GD7470@lucon.org> In-Reply-To: <20060615150347.GD7470@lucon.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606151615.03652.paul@codesourcery.com> Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00249.txt.bz2 > > FWIW I've found it more useful to add .cpu and/or .arch assembly > > directives. Handling the gcc spec strings for commandline controls and > > making sure the gcc and gas defaults are consistent can get painful, > > especially if gcc has several different ways of specifying the cpu > > variant. > > x86/x86-64 assembler support .arch. But I don't think gcc uses it. I > am not sure how well it will work with existing code bases if gcc > starts generating .arch. That's what configure checks are for. Paul