Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-29 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 2/29/2016 5:37 AM, Kyrill Tkachov wrote: On 28/02/16 21:34, Joel Sherrill wrote: On February 28, 2016 3:20:24 PM CST, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: I propose to commit this patch later this week. + Support for revisions of the ARM arc

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-29 Thread Kyrill Tkachov
On 28/02/16 21:34, Joel Sherrill wrote: On February 28, 2016 3:20:24 PM CST, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: I propose to commit this patch later this week. + Support for revisions of the ARM architecture prior to ARMv4t has + been depr

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-28 Thread Joel Sherrill
On February 28, 2016 3:20:24 PM CST, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: >> I propose to commit this patch later this week. > >+ Support for revisions of the ARM architecture prior to ARMv4t >has >+ been deprecated and will be removed in a futu

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-28 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > I propose to commit this patch later this week. + Support for revisions of the ARM architecture prior to ARMv4t has + been deprecated and will be removed in a future GCC release. + This affects ARM6, ARM7 (but not ARM7TDMI),

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-26 Thread Richard Earnshaw (lists)
On 24/02/16 13:59, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > After discussion with the ARM port maintainers we have decided that now > is probably the right time to deprecate support for versions of the ARM > Architecture prior to ARMv4t. This will allow us to clean up some of > the code base going forwar

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Ring
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:15 PM, David Brown wrote: > Great link, thanks!

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Ring
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 3:15 PM, David Brown wrote: > The "t" is thumb, "e" means "DSP-like extensions", and I suspect the "l" > is a misprint for "j", meaning the Jazelle (Java) acceleration instructions. I doubt that as "armv5tejl" is also quite common.

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Earnshaw (lists)
On 25/02/16 14:15, David Brown wrote: > On 25/02/16 14:32, Stefan Ring wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) >> wrote: >>> The point is to permit the compiler to use interworking compatible >>> sequences of code when generating ARM code, not to force users to use >>>

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread David Brown
On 25/02/16 14:32, Stefan Ring wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) > wrote: >> The point is to permit the compiler to use interworking compatible >> sequences of code when generating ARM code, not to force users to use >> Thumb code. The necessary instruction (BX)

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Earnshaw (lists)
On 25/02/16 13:32, Stefan Ring wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) > wrote: >> The point is to permit the compiler to use interworking compatible >> sequences of code when generating ARM code, not to force users to use >> Thumb code. The necessary instruction (BX)

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Stefan Ring
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > The point is to permit the compiler to use interworking compatible > sequences of code when generating ARM code, not to force users to use > Thumb code. The necessary instruction (BX) is available in armv5 and > armv5e, even thou

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Earnshaw (lists)
On 24/02/16 17:38, Joseph Myers wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > >> After discussion with the ARM port maintainers we have decided that now >> is probably the right time to deprecate support for versions of the ARM >> Architecture prior to ARMv4t. This will allow us

Re: [WWWDocs] Deprecate support for non-thumb ARM devices

2016-02-24 Thread Joseph Myers
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Richard Earnshaw (lists) wrote: > After discussion with the ARM port maintainers we have decided that now > is probably the right time to deprecate support for versions of the ARM > Architecture prior to ARMv4t. This will allow us to clean up some of Should this include -mar