On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 06:38:40PM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 10:36:02AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > Since we've been talking about obsoleting cpu support, how about > > getting rid of -many in ASM_CPU_SPEC for gcc-8? > > Sure, but that doesn't need advance warning to the users, does it?
Probably not. > Things worked before and stay working, nothing user-visible? Except for bad user asm() that ought to be true. Oh, and gcc bugs like emitting power9 insns when -mcpu=power8. You'd have some chance that the assembler would complain rather than getting sigill at run-time. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
