Re: mfpu=neon and -march=native on aarch64-linux-gnu toolchain

2015-06-10 Thread Pinski, Andrew
-mgeneral-regs-only is how you turn off SIMD usage. But Note it also turns off floating point too. I don't know why you want to turn off the SIMD usage because all ARMv8-a platforms have it and it is not optional for -a processors. That slide is about AARCH32 (aka A32 aka armv7) usage. Than

Re: mfpu=neon and -march=native on aarch64-linux-gnu toolchain

2015-06-10 Thread Virendra Kumar Pathak
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the information. So does it mean gcc will not recognize the 'mfpu' option itself for aarch64 ? Linaro ToolChain FAQ says along with '-mfpu', we also need to specify -mfloat-abi=softfp|hard otherwise VFP/Neon/Crypto instructions will not be generated. Also Linaro connect pres