2.95.2 arm-elf-gcc and -msingle-pic-base

2.95.2 arm-elf-gcc and -msingle-pic-base

[Dan Hovang]

Hello,

When browsing the GCC manual one finds two nice ARM options:
-msingle-pic-base and -mpic-register=<reg>. When I tried to use
theese on my 2.95.2 arm-elf-gcc I got "invalid option" errors.

I looked in the sourcecode (config/arm/arm.c) and found no such
options. On the site I found a post from last summer containing a
patch adding theese options:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/1999-07n/msg00573.html

I just wonder why theese options are missing in the main sources.
Is it the documentation that is wrong? Would it be feasible to add
the above patch to my compiler to make it work?

Best regards,
 Dan Hovang

Re: 2.95.2 arm-elf-gcc and -msingle-pic-base

[Philip Blundell]

>When browsing the GCC manual one finds two nice ARM options:
>-msingle-pic-base and -mpic-register=<reg>. When I tried to use
>theese on my 2.95.2 arm-elf-gcc I got "invalid option" errors.

2.95.2 is just too old.  If you use a snapshot (or wait for GCC 3.0) these 
will be supported.

>Is it the documentation that is wrong? Would it be feasible to add
>the above patch to my compiler to make it work?

I don't see why not.

p.