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From: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
To: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@st.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [ARM] How to query gas for target properties?
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:45:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CC82CF9.5000007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBBF909.8040206@st.com>

Hi Christophe,

> I'd like to write an assembly code fragment with some parts conditional
> to some target properties.
> For instance, on ARM, I'd like to know if the target has the Neon
> extension, ie gas if gas was invoked with -mfpu=neon.
>
> I have been able to perform some other conditions (eg architecture
> variant) through cpp, but I have found nothing enabling to know that
> -mfpu=neon was used.

Probably the easiest method would be to write the code in C as extended 
assembler statements and check for the presence of the __ARM_NEON__ 
preprocessor variable.

Cheers
   Nick


  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-27 13:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-18  7:37 Christophe Lyon
2010-10-27 13:45 ` Nick Clifton [this message]
2010-11-04 15:44   ` Christophe Lyon
2010-11-05  3:23     ` Ramana Radhakrishnan

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