On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Christian Bruel <christian.br...@st.com> wrote: > Hi Ramana, > > On 11/10/2015 12:48 PM, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote: >> >> [Resending as I managed to muck this up with my mail client] >> >> Hi, >> >> I held off committing a previous version of this patch that I posted in >> July to be nice to folks backporting fixes and to watch for any objections >> to move the ARM backend completely over into the unified assembler. >> >> The patch does the following. >> >> * The compiler now generates code in all ISA modes in unified asm. >> * We've had unified asm only for the last 10 years, ever since the first >> Thumb2 support was put in, the disassembler generates output in unified >> assembler, while the compiler output is always in divided syntax for ARM >> state. >> * This means patterns get simpler not having to worry about the position >> of the condition in a conditional instruction. For example we now >> consistently use >> a. ldrbeq rather than ldreqb >> b. movseq rather than moveqs >> c. Or indeed the appropriate push / pop instructions whereever >> appropriate. >> >> >> The compiler behaviour has not changed in terms of what it does with >> inline assembler, that still remains in divided syntax and over time we need >> to move all of this over to unified syntax if we can do so as all the >> official documentation is now in terms of unified asm. I've been carrying >> this in my tree for quite a while and am reasonably happy that it is stable. >> I will watch out for any fallout in the coming weeks with this but it is >> better to take this now rather than later given we are hitting the end of >> stage1. >> >> Tested on arm-none-eabi - applied to trunk. >> >> > > I see a failure with an outdated check for the unified assembly. OK to fix ? >
OK thanks. Ramana > >
