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Re: Selecting a ppc architecture inline
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Jeff Baker <jbaker at qnx dot com>
- Cc: 'Alan Modra' <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>,"'binutils at sources dot redhat dot com'" <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 10:47:41 -0400
- Subject: Re: Selecting a ppc architecture inline
- References: <1578FF984ABAD411AFA5000102C4BB5B02CB9074@nimbus>
It sounds like Alan wasn't objecting - just explaining that it won't
work. Someone has to write the code to implement it.
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:23:57AM -0400, Jeff Baker wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance :)
>
> What is the objection to having a .set pseudo op for ppc that would accept
> anything you can specify by -m on the command line?
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:02:24AM -0400, Jeff Baker wrote:
> > > We have some assembly code for powerpc that's mixed generic, ppc403 and
> > > booke. I know for mips you can use .set to specify the ISA in the code,
> > but
> > > how do I do this for ppc?
> >
> > You can't with current gas. You'd need (at least) to reinsert opcodes
> > into the hash table. See tc-ppc.c:md_begin
> >
> > --
> > Alan Modra
> > IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
>
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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