Compiling in pure Thumb2 mode
Yann E. MORIN
yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr
Fri Jan 1 12:28:35 UTC 2010
Hello All, and a happy new year!
I just check the current git tree, and it does not seem possible to build in
pure Thumb2 mode on a CPU that support ARM and Thumb2 modes (eg. Cortex-A8),
while it seems possible to build for Thumb2-only CPUs (eg. Cortex-M3).
Am I correct?
On the same idea...
Once upon a time (not so long ago...), there was the idea floating around [1]
that uClibc should not care about the specifics of the target CPU, and should
leave that to the compiler to decide. There even have been a mere attempt at
doing so [2] [3], and even a consensus (at the time) [4] [5] but the code did
not make it to the tree...
What are your thoughts on the idea? I can tackle some patches for the archs
I know of (ARM/MIPS/x86/x86_64) in the few following days...
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
[1] http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042262.html
and subsequent post in the thread.
[2] http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042276.html
[3] http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042277.html
[4] http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042291.html
[5] http://lists.uclibc.org/pipermail/uclibc/2009-April/042329.html
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